Social aspects for data collaboration

A server that includes a data service, the server comprising:

• a provider interface module that enables content providers to provide datasets to be maintained by the data service, to be published and shared with users by the data service;
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• an annotation and extension system that enables a community of users to annotate and extend the datasets maintained by the data service, the annotation and extension system including
• a dataset annotation module that enables a first user to annotate a first dataset maintained by the data service,
• a dataset extension module that enables the first user to extend the first dataset, and
• a suggestion interface module that generates a suggestion of a second dataset to the first user based on information received from a community of users.

A computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions embodied in said computer readable storage medium for enabling a processor to manage datasets of a data service, the computer program instructions comprising:

• first computer program instructions that enable the processor to enable a first user to annotate a first dataset maintained by the data service;
• second computer program instructions that enable the processor to enable the first user to extend the first dataset;
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• third computer program instructions that enable the processor to generate a suggestion of a second dataset to the first user based on information received from a community of users.