  Open data has been around for many years but with the advancement of
technology and its steady adoption by businesses and governments it promises to
create new opportunities for the advancement of society as a whole. Many
popular open data platforms have focused on solving the problems faced by the
data producer and offers limited support for the data consumers in the way of
tools and supported processes for easy access, modeling and mining of data
within the various platforms. In this paper we present the specifications for a
data consumer oriented platform for open data, the Data-TAP. We demonstrate how
this platform is able to (a) meet the goal of leveraging the data resources of
existing Open Data platforms, (b) provide a means to standardize and structure
data to allow for the merging of related data resources and (c) use a
rule-based method for parsing resources. This paper will show how Data-TAP
provides an easy to use and understand interface for making open data
friendlier for consumers.
