Conclusion of Mme Irina Bolychevsky on Data Days 2014, Wednesday 19th February

1. DataDays 2014
The road to Open Data
Irina Bolychevsky
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2. We are a global network using advocacy and
technology to open up knowledge and see it used
to empower citizens and organizations to drive
positive change
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4. Working groups
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5. Highlights
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6. 1: Regional efforts
● Data requests
● Publishing records of unpublished
datasets
● Ensuring feedback loop
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8. 2: Privacy
http://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/22/open-data-my-data/
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9. 3: Company data
● Important steps being taken
● Keep moving forward
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10. OpenCorporates.com
http://opencorporates.com/viz/financial/index.html
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11. Obama: open and machine readable
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12. Open
Government
Partnership
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13. Key takeaways
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14. Value is no simple sum
open + data =
money
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15. Not a solution by itself
Why do it?
- Transparency
- Economy
- Efficiency
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16. Transparency
Open Process + Engagement:
● Data Journalism
● Civil Society
● Ask for help
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17. DataJournalismHandbook.org
● Free online - with Spanish, Russian
and French versions
● What is Data Journalism? Why is it
Important?
● Numerous case studies: BBC,
Guardian Datablog, Zeit Online..
● How to get, transform, understand
& visualise / deliver data
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19. http://project-open-data.github.io/
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20. http://data.gov.uk/odug
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21. Economy: make it easy to re-use
1. Publish the schema
2. Standardise
3. Use the data you publish
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22. Efficiency
Do you know the
state of your own
spending?
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23. Licencing
Clear, standard default licences
are important
Legal guarantee for reuse
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24. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/
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25. opendefinition.org
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and share-alike.
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26. Open Data Portal is a good start!
Online home for data
Focal point of discovery
Helps data management processes
Check links
Reports of usage
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28. Making it local
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Smart Cities
Relevant local apps and services
Driving policy & quality
Better internal management
Providing underlying data should be part of
the package
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29. The Future
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30. New targets
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Standards
Vocabularies
Interoperability
Localization and geospatial data
Validation & services
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31. Questions, comments,
discussion!
Thank you
Irina Bolychevsky
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