25. Open Data in Korea
Governments and citizens are interested in using open data and in developing real use cases.
What’s Happening Now
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Bus Arrival Notification
System
“The 360 will be arrived
in 5 minutes”
Open Data Catalog
of Seoul city
(http://data.seoul.go.kr)
Diverse Contests and
Challenges
(Smart Apps Dev
Contest)
Proposal
29. Why OKF in Korea
Background
Learn and share open data experiences
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We expect to learn best practices, strategies, policies of open data, and also share more concrete examples
in Korea. Although Korean government has a great success in area of e-government, it is also big obstacle
for expanding “open data”. The vision and objectives of OKF can be a good guideline.
Make Korean open data more open, accessible2
Various datasets already exist from government, and more datasets will be opened up in near future.
However, these datasets are not shared with other datasets from other countries or communities, because
of language, culture issues. OKF Korea aims to solve these limitations and to leverage open data in world-
wide.
Make better successful communities of open data3
Individuals and communities are now interested in using open data. However, for expanding their interests
to be live well-organized community is necessary. OKF Korea will be a hub for communicating,
collaborating, and connecting people who are willing to change their life using open data.
Proposal
33. Web Science Workgroup getthedata.kr
Activities
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Korean Semantic Web
Conference
thedatahub.kr
Web Science Workgroup
Launched March 2007. A number of events is organized by Web Science Workgroup,
including data mash-up camp, web science camp, the Korean Semantic Web Conference.
- Over 200 registered
members with various
domains
- co-organized
Open Data Camp 2012
with Creative Commons
Korea
- Participated150-200
users annually
- Themed by
* 2009: Web Science
* 2010: Gov 2.0
* 2011: Linked Data
* 2012: Open Data
- Will be launched on October, officially
- Share Datasets with Seoul City (http://data.seoul.go.kr)
- Over 1,000 datasets already uploaded
- Developed data collectors and clients
- Will be organized Open Data Dev Camp (October)
* Translation completed: CKAN 1.8 and Open Data
Handbook
Initially, 10~15 members will join OKF Korea, as soon as we have confirmation from OKF.
Proposal
48.
Open Knowledge Foundation
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OKF is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting
openness in all its forms (data + content)
We build:
Communities + Tools
51. Makes it easy to publish, share, and find dataset. Integrated data storage, processing,
viewing and visualization
CKAN – Open Source Data Portal
Open Data Portals
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Roadmap of linked open government data
Conceptual Architecture
“the combination of machine power and human power and deliver higher-quality data to a wide
range of data consumers via visualization, mashups, and more.”
(Ding et al., 2012)
448. Data on the Web
Summary
Data is information about things
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Data is something machines can process
Data drives applications (e.g. web sites, mobile services)
Data is relations among things
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Vision of Government Open Data
Conceptual Architecture
“realise significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build
innovative applications and websites using public data.”
(Ding et al., 2012)
450. Data.gov, along with a number of other data-related sites of the government
such as USAspending.gov and Apps.gov, are slated to be shut down due to
budget cuts. The current annual budget of $37 million will be reduced to $2
million. – (Guardian April 11)
Reality Check
Data.gov in crisis
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459. Difficult
Loss of licensing revenue
Loss of control
Legal challenges
Unwelcomed exposure
Procedural changes
Privacy
National security
Complexity
Investment
Quality and Authenticity
Corruption, falsification of data
Customer service
Requires
Authority, Public Administration Readiness, and Civic
Interest and Readiness
Reality Check
Concerned and Hurdles
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460. RebuildFireout
“We won’t get there tomorrow, but maybe the day after” –
Rufus Pollock
How to Start
Low-hanging fruit, Less conversational data and quick wins.
Expand, with
more…..
Data
Services
Efficiency
Costs saving
Transparency
Participation
Inclusion
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461. Difficult
Hope is not a strategy and the “change” has been
change for the worse, and not better.
Concluding Remarks
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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462. For more information contact
Open Knowledge Foundation
Korea
via
okfn.korea@gmail.com
http://okfn.kr
Or see more activities at:
http://thedatahub.kr
http://openspending.okfn.kr
http://budget.okfn.kr
http://lod.datahub.kr
