The document discusses open data in the UK. It notes that Data.gov.uk contains over 3,000 datasets, 1,000 maps, and 900 million weather data points, receiving over 3 million visits. It also discusses the importance of open markets and data services, barriers to open data like outdated business models and licensing restrictions, and factors like awareness, discovery, quality, and proper metadata that determine successful open data. The goal is for data to be easily searchable and accessible, serving as its own interface.

1. degrees of openness

2. Data.gov.uk
9040 datasets
40,000 points of data
Over 1000 maps
Over 900m weather data points
3,136,598 visits
2,322,657 unique visitors

3. markets

4. • A closed market is a crippled
market
• An open market is larger than the
sum of its parts
• Data services is one part of the
equation
• Added-value Services completes it

5. 256 apps

6. barriers

7. • Old mechanisms for profit may
not work in the new world
• Restrictions on licensing may
well be a restriction on growth
• Do not localise your horizon

8. awareness

9. • Not knowing what I can do
means not doing it
• Usage must be a determining
factor in looking forward
• Knowing the benefits is half the
journey

10. discovery

11. • If I can’t find it, it does not
exists in my world...
• Finding data is a topological
adventure

15. quality

16. • A rose by any other name IS
NOT still a rose
• Metadata, metadata, metadata

17. openness

18. • Available, reusable,
unrestricted (it can be
conditioned)
• Of good quality, with good
metadata
• Linked and with supporting
infrastructures

19. We are aiming for…

20. • We search in the data not for
the data (results bring back content not
just references to content)

21. • Data IS the interface