Panel discussion at SECOP conference in Brazil on September 20, 2012: http://www.secop2012.rs.gov.br/

1. Using Open Data to
Create Value for Citizens
Jeanne Holm
Evangelist, Data.gov
20 September 2012

2. Data.gov
• Provides instant access to
~400,000 datasets in easy
to use formats
• Contributions from UN,
World Bank, and 172
agencies
• Encourage development of
innovative applications
• Drive innovation and
knowledge use across the
globe
• Create a national platform
for access and discoverable
to big data from or funded
by the government

3. Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data
– from many places and give it freely to
developers, scientists, and citizens
1. Connect the community
– in finding solutions to allow collaboration
through social media, events, and platforms
1. Provide an infrastructure
– built on standards and interoperability
1. Encourage technology developers
– to create apps, maps, and visualizations of
“A Strategy for American
data that empower people’s choices Innovation” published
September 2009
1. Gather more data
1. and connect more people

4. Open Communities
Community
✓
Developers
Open Data ✓
Semantic Web ✓
Health ✓
Law ✓
Energy ✓
Education ✓
Ocean ✓
Safety ✓
Manufacturing ✓
Business ✓
Ethics ✓
Consumer
Research and Development
Cities
+ many more…

5. Energy Drives Innovation
• Energy.Data.gov
connects
innovators,
industry,
academia, and
government at
federal, state,
and local levels

6. Challenges Spark Ideas
• Energy.Data.gov
works with
groups and
challenges across
the nation to
innovate around
federal data

7. Data Drives Decisions
• Apps transform data
in understandable
ways to help people
make decisions

8. Green Button
• Anyone can download their
home or business energy use
data from their local utility
• Then use apps to manage
their energy use to save
money and go green
• More at Energy.Data.gov

9. US Open Government Action Plan
• On 20 September 2011, President
Obama announced at the UN
General Assembly…
• Contribute Data.gov as a platform
– India and the U.S. creating open source
platform
– Allows any country to create open data
site
• Foster communities on Data.gov
– Health, energy, and law plus new
communities in education, research and
development, and public safety

10. Open Government Platform (OGPL)
• Open source solution co-developed by
Governments of India and US
– National Informatics Centre and US Data.gov
• US Data.gov will migrate to OGPL later in
2012
• Coordinating with other open data providers,
platforms, and communities, like W3C,
World Bank, CKAN, and open source
developers world wide
• Public commits and bug tracker on Github
• Public mailing list for discussion
• Join the community!
– Source code on Github
– https://github.com/opengovtplatform

11. Data.gov Capabilities
• Present • Future
– Dataset Management – Big Data
• Workflow and metadata • Platform for access and
discoverability
– Search
• Keyword and filtering by – OGPL
metadata facets • Open source platform
• 6.7 billion triples – API key registry
– Geo • API key authorization
• Search, harvesting, and map • Templates and standards
visualizations via – Enhanced search
www.geoplatform.gov • Federated catalogs across
– Vocab.Data.gov agencies, cities, and topics
• Vocabulary and schema – Vocab.Data.gov
publishing for linked data • Federated ontologies
• URIs for all health data • URIs for all data
– Big Data – Standards driven
• Happens by chance • W3C eGovernment Group

12. The Path Ahead
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★
• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★
• Create communities to understand and apply data
• Connect and collaborate with small businesses,
industry, and academia to drive innovation
• Continue to develop OGPL with community
development
• Share with others to understand global issues
We need to securely architect our systems
for interoperability and openness from conception.
—Digital Government

13. Open Data at Cities, Counties,
and States

14. A Global
Movement Has
Begun to Provide
Transparency and
Democratization
of Data
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Update via @usdatagov

15. Let’s work together to set the
data free!
www.Data.Gov
@usdatagov
jholm@jpl.nasa.gov
@JeanneHolm