DataGraft: One-stop-shop for open data management1

TLDR

DataGraft was created to offer data workers and developers a simpler, cost‑effective, cloud‑based solution for managing, transforming, and hosting open data. The paper introduces DataGraft and outlines its rationale, key features, components, and evaluation. DataGraft enables flexible, interactive data transformations and reliable hosting through a cloud‑based platform.

Abstract

This paper introduces DataGraft (https://datagraft.net/) – a cloud-based platform for data transformation and publishing. DataGraft was developed to provide better and easier to use tools for data workers and developers (e.g., open data publishers, linked data developers, data scientists) who consi der existing approaches to data transformation, hosting, and access too costly and technically complex. DataGraft offers an integrated, flexible, and reliable cloud-based solution for hosted open data management. Key features include flexible management of data transformations (e.g., interactive creation, execution, sharing, and reuse) and reliable data hosting services. This paper provides an overview of DataGraft focusing on the rationale, key features and components, and evaluation.