I consider how the open data published on Glasgow's Open Data platform fits within the broader landscape of open data initiatives in Scotland and the rest of the UK. This talk was presented at the launch of Glasgow's City Data Hub on 23 February 2015.

1. Where is Glasgow in the
Open Data Landscape?
Ewan Klein
@ewanhklein | @okfnscot

2. Transparency and accountability
Releasing social and commercial value
Civic participation and engagement
Motivations for Open
Data

4. http://opendefinition.org

5. A piece of data or
content is open if
anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute
it.

6. Open Data — only
guaranteed by virtue of
an appropriate licence,
e.g.

7. 2003 MySociety
2004 OpenStreetMap, Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)
2006 Linked Data Principles (Berners-Lee, 5 Star Data)
2009 data.gov
2010 data.gov.uk
2011 Open Government Partnership (OGP)
2012 Open Data Institute (ODI)
Open Data User Group (ODUG)
2013 Glasgow Future Cities Demonstrator
SG Data Management Board
2014 Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics Linked Data pilot
Nesta Scotland Code4Europe
2015 The Data Lab
SG Open Data Strategy paper
Timeline

8. City Open Datasets
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Bristol
Cambridge
Leeds
London
Manchester
0 150 300 450 600

9. http://okfnscot.github.io/open-data-scotland/

10. Scotland
UK
Open Data is a
devolved matter
3,775 datasets
tagged ‘scotland’
on data.gov.uk

11. Open Data Value Chain
start-ups, incubation
supply
demand

12. Open Data Value Chain
community & activists
supply
demand

13. Metrics for City Data

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Standards

15. 5 Star Data

16. Identifiers: Where is Glasgow?
• Should be globally unique
• ‘Glasgow’ — UK? Canada? Suriname?
• Ordinary names (or strings) usually aren’t
suitable identifiers
• Example of URI identifier:
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Glasgow

17. Progress with open
data in Scotland
• ‘Low-hanging fruit’ syndrome
• Data champions: innovating within the
organisation, reuse beyond the silo
• Start-up costs, sustainability, digital
participation and ROI
• Training, standards, best-practice

18. Some conclusions
• Open Glasgow is leading by example,
on many fronts
• Scope for more dissemination and
advocacy
• Value of open data only emerges when
linkage is possible — shared identifiers!
• Coordination at national level?