2. What we are going to see today…?
0 (Open Public Data) || (Public Sector Information) || (Open
Government Data)
0 What is it ?
0 What is its importance ?
0 What does exist out there ?
0 The ENGAGE Contribution - open collaborative platform
0 Value proposition
0 Components
0 Platform
0 Communities Contribution
0 Requesting your feedback
0 Run a usability test
0 Bubs reporting for BETA version
3. What is Open Data ?
0 Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely
available to everyone to use and republish as they
wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control
0 All EU Public Sector bodies are advised to provide Public Sector
Information as Open Data (the PSI Directive, 2003/2008)
4. Why is Open Data important ?
0 Organises public knowledge
0 Supports transparency / fights against corruption
0 Can motivate citizens to collaborate in governance
0 Can contribute to better democratic processes and
evidence-based decision making
0 Provides data to other sciences for solving problems
0 Gives ideas for new services and start-ups to citizens
and SME’s
5. Can you give us some good examples ?
0 Organises public knowledge : data.gov (UK)
0 Leads to better, new services : data.gov (US)
0 Supports transparency: diavgeia.gr (GR)
0 Can motivate citizens: toronto.ca (CA)
0 Fights against corruption : ipaidabribe.com (IN)
0 Can contribute to better democracy: opengov (GR)
0 Gives ideas for start-ups: Open Data Institute (UK)
0 Provides data to science for solving complex problems
of the society: ENGAGE (EU)
6. The 5 model for open data
★
make PUBLIC stuff available on the Web
(whatever format) under an open license
★★
make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel
instead of image scan of a table)
★★★
use non-proprietary formats
(e.g., CSV instead of Excel)
★★★★
use URIs to denote things, so that people
can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context
7. And, beyond 5 Stars ?
0 Provide enough metadata for allowing others to find your open
data
0 Give a clear “open licensing” for allowing reuse of information
without legal burdens
0 Provide visualisations of open and linked data
0 But most importantly … provide your data as a service
8. The ENGAGE “Two-way” Open Data Usage Scenarios
Delivering Public Sector Data to Researchers and Citizens
Delivering Open Data Needs and guidelines to Public Sector Organisations
9. An Open Data Platform generic architecture
User Interface
Application
Interface (for
systems)
Various Apps
(PC & mobile)
Data Curation
(annotation,
linking, formats)
Data
Visualisation
Data Linking
Data Acquisition
UI
Data Acquisition
API
Directories of
sources
Acquisition
Processing
Provision
10.
11. "The problems that we have
created cannot be solved
at the level of thinking
that created them"
Albert Einstein
And, not to forget:
12. Create your community(ies) with members of mutual
interests
Each community will be able to increase the value of
its data sets by applying their own perspectives based
on its unique needs
Similar data may be out there – but you never get
lost…
Upload your work and share it with your community
Find other valuable for your work data sets uploaded
by your community (Collaborate / Exchange / Ask /
Provide)
Combine their results with yours – make new datasets
13. Search in all diverse and dispersed data sources in EU
supported by ENGAGE (metadata interconnection)
Find your target data sets in whatever level (Lee’s 5-
stars system)
Be able to transform your datasets keeping the
valuable information with the ENGAGE external tools
(GoogleRefine, Scrapperwiki etc.)
See your results through visualisation tools
Structure your data according to your needs – control
all the levels of your dataset (metadata, vocabularies
creation, uploading, format)
Refine existing datasets by (metadata enrichment,
export the already shaped vocabularies)
