#open data + #ddj

#opendata + #ddj

Jonathan GrayOpen Knowledge Foundation

2011/04/16/Perugia/IJF

What is '#opendata'?

Its all about:

Re-use

From legal uncertainty...

… to legal clarity.

Open data: free for anyone to reuse orredistribute for any purpose

“open” =

usereuseredistributioncommercial reusederivative works

“do what you like”

may require:- attribution

- sharing back

C

opendefinition.org

Why?

Data for data's sake?

Enable people to make useful,valuable things with government data

New ways of representing data

Put policies into context

New ways of delivering data

Personalised services

A richer data ecosystem

Better connected, more detailed,higher quality data sources

Not just about government

Harness external expertise

Closed data does not scale

Sharing is the key to scaling

Who is doing it?

Open government dataaround the world?

Arvada, Asturias, Australia, Badalona, Balearic Islands, Ireland, Canadá, Catalonia, Chile, China, San Francisco County, City of Ann Arbor, Calgary, Edmonton, London, City of Seattle, Windsor, Portland, State of Colorado, Dalian, Kingdom of Denmark, Hong Kong, Manchester, Washington D.C., Europe, Extremadura, Fingal County, State of Florida, Georgia, Gijón, Helsinki, Massachusetts, County of Kent, Kenya, Republic of Finland, Lichfield District, Italy, Lleida, London City, State of Maine, State of Minnesota, State of Missouri, Departamento de Montevideo, Montreal, Nanaimo, Nantes, Kingdom of the Netherlands, New South Wales, The City of New York, State of New York, New Zealand, N Ireland, State of Oklahoma, State of Alabama, Albania, Cordoba, Basque Country, Finlande-Orientale, London, Manchester, Navarra, Ottawa, State of Texas, State of Georgia, State of Tennessee, Sweden, Barcelona, Kingdom of Sweden, Spain, State of Oregon, Paris, Kingdom of Spain, Hellenic Republic, Piedmont, Rennes, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Russia, Europe, Slovakia, California Republic, Michigan, State of Nebraska, State of Utah, State of Washington, Sutton, Globe, Toronto, Borough of Trafford, United States of America, U.K., Globe, Vancouver, Victoria, Virginia, Warwickshire, Saragossa

100+ data cataloguesfrom around the world

OpenDataSearch.org15k+ datasets

AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFrance

GermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalta

NetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenUnited Kingdom

Open government data in Europe?

AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFrance

GermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalta

NetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenUnited Kingdom

Open government data in Europe?

PublicData.eu13k+ datasets

“I have said it before, andI say it again: yes to open data!”

EC Vice President Neelie Kroes

So what?

How is this relevant to journalism?

What will open data enable us to dothat we couldn't do before?

What questions will it let us answer?

How will it make our lives easier?

<caveats>

Open data is not a panacea

Tools don't write stories,journalists do

</caveats>

More material for news stories

Tools which make it easierto explore and analyse big datasets

Giving direct access to sources

Harness external expertise

Giving context to stories

Giving access to news sources

Speed up fact-checking

Tools that are so goodthat they are invisible

For example?

Spending data

Fragmented, disconnected,non-machine readable

Difficult to find,hard to piece together

WhereDoesMyMoneyGo.org

OpenSpending.org

Mapping spending in 20+ countries

Datastore

Tools for analysis and visualisation

Complex queries, custom notifications

Understanding, contextualisingand interrogating data

Who gets what?

Systematically track transactions

How much has investment in UKschools grown over the past 5 years?

How much did Siemens receive intotal in 2006-2009 from UK and Italy?

How much do streetlights costin Paris? In Rome? In Tbilisi?

Spending Stories

Connecting stories to datasets,and vice versa

What now?

Increasing data literacy

Ask/answer questions about data:GetTheData.org

12 minute film about #opendata:opengovernmentdata.org/film

EJC's data journalism group:bit.ly/ejc-ddj

OKF's #ddj mailing list:bit.ly/ddj-list

Interested in spending?OpenSpending.org

OpenDataChallenge.org€20k, 60 days

These slides:slidesha.re/opendata-ddj

jonathan.gray@okfn.orghttp://twitter.com/jwyg

Get in touch!

Image credits

Images by Otto Neurath and the Isotype Institute from FulltablePierre Vivant's Traffic Light Tree by William WarbyThe Green Light by Ted Percival

Further links

Open Knowledge Foundation - http://www.okfn.orgWhere Does My Money Go? - http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.orgOpen Spending - http://www.openspending.orgEuropean Energy - http://energy.publicdata.euOpen Government Data - http://www.opengovernmentdata.orgCKAN - http://www.ckan.net + http://www.ckan.orgOpen Knowledge Definition - http://www.opendefinition.orgGet The Data - http://www.getthedata.orgOpen Data Manual - http://www.opendatamanual.orgOpen Data Search - http://www.opendatasearch.orgPublicData.eu - http://publicdata.eu

These slides are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike License. While most imagesare available under an open license (see above) some are used for illustrative purposes and rights may bereserved by their creators.