Open data has been around for many years but with the advancement oftechnology and its steady adoption by businesses and governments it promises tocreate new opportunities for the advancement of society as a whole. Manypopular open data platforms have focused on solving the problems faced by thedata producer and offers limited support for the data consumers in the way oftools and supported processes for easy access, modeling and mining of datawithin the various platforms. In this paper we present the specifications for adata consumer oriented platform for open data, the Data-TAP. We demonstrate howthis platform is able to (a) meet the goal of leveraging the data resources ofexisting Open Data platforms, (b) provide a means to standardize and structuredata to allow for the merging of related data resources and (c) use arule-based method for parsing resources. This paper will show how Data-TAPprovides an easy to use and understand interface for making open datafriendlier for consumers.
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