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The Talis Connected Commons scheme is intended to directly support the publishing and reuse of Linked Data in the public domain by removing the costs associated with those activities.

The scheme is intended to support a wide range of different forms of data publishing. For example scientific researchers seeking to share their research data; dissemination of public domain data from a variety of different charitable, public sector or volunteer organizations; open data enthusiasts compiling data sets to be shared with the web community.

For qualifying data sets, Talis will provide:

  • Free annual hosting of up to 50 Million triples and 10Gb of content
  • Access to the standard free data access services over that data, including data retrieval and text search
  • Free access to a public SPARQL endpoint for each data set.

This means that data set providers will not incur any of the commercial costs normally associated with hosting data on the Talis Platform. In addition neither the data set provider or its users will incur any usage charges relating to the use of the Platform services made available on that data.

To qualify for entry into the scheme all data and content hosted in the Platform must be made available under one of the following public domain data licenses:

For more information, see the Connected Commons Terms and Conditions which describes the basic terms of the offer including your responsibilities as the data owner. The Frequently Asked Questions also provides some additional background and discussion.

To apply for access to the Talis Platform under the Connected Commons scheme, please use our contact form.