Presentation by Toby Green on OECD's activities in data publishing given at the Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium, 22 May 2013, Oxford, UK

1. Data Publishing at OECD
Past. Present. Future.
The Now and Future of Data Publishing,
a symposium, 22 May 2013, Oxford, UK
Plenary Panel 1:
Where are we now? What’s new?
Why the new initiatives? What are the benefits?
Toby Green
Head of Publishing
toby.green@oecd.org

2. More data than you can shake a stick at!
So how do we publish for everyone’s benefit?
Including him

3. User profile Typical task
Policy advisor Preparing for a speech
Business analyst Client business advice
Researcher/ Statistician Data crunching for a report
University Librarian Assisting someone with a data query
Journalist Creating a topical story and graphic
NGO / Citizen with a cause Facts to support an argument
Undergraduate student Essay (for tomorrow morning)
Data aggregators/resellers Aggregate data with other sources
Developers Build an App or Viz
Who uses our data?

4. “Let me find,
understand and
use
the data I (really, really) need.”
What they really, really want . . .

5. So how do we publish for everyone?
We add a little value . . .

6. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
CD-ROM
DatasetsDataAnnuals
MOBILE
IndicatorAnnuals
MOBILE
CitationTool
Shareable,Embeddable
DataPortal
Monographs,
Papers
MOBILE
Online Browser
Machine-Machine
Stories,
Vizualisations
eXplorer
Better Life
Index
DataLab
SinglePublishingPlatform

7. “Let me find, understand and use
the data I (really, really) need.”

8. Looking ahead . . .
• Data Apps (IOS and Android)
- iEconomy
- Factbook launched yesterday!
• Cool new embeddable, shareable and
personalisable charting tool (in beta)
• New Data portal (2014)
No sheep (or Spice Girls) were harmed in the preparation of this presentation.
Thank You