1. Driving Innovation withOpen Data and Knowledge Sharing Jeanne HolmEvangelist, Data.govAugust 25, 2012

2. Change is Happening 2 3. What Will You Do?3 4. PeoplePeople Knowledge ProblemsThe Times They Are AChanging4 5. Generations ShareDifferently 1930-50s era generation Focus on society Friendships are forged through adversity 1960-70s era generation Focus on community Friendships forged through identification with a cause 1980-90s era generation Focus on the individual Friendships forged through individual goal accomplishment 2000s era generation Focus on common interests Friendships are created or thrive virtually 5 6. Trust and Reciprocity Trust can be built on Personal experience I know you Shared experience We both worked on thesame project Transfer of trust We know the same personwho trusts us Shared values We agree to operate by thesame rules 6 7. The Learning Journey 7 8. 8 9. Communities for Collaboration9 10. Finding NASA Experts 10 11. Defining the Competitive Edge Historically, innovation and breakthrough ideas andtechnologies occur at the edges and boundaries ofnetworks Thomas Kuhns The Structure of ScientificRevolutions describes such radical innovation as aparadigm shift Astronomy: Ptolemy to Copernicus Biology: Creation to Darwinian evolution Politics: English monarchy to Magna Carta Where will your innovation occur?11 12. 12 13. 13 14. 14 15. 15 16. 16 17. 17 18. 18 19. 19 20. 20 21. 21 22. 22 23. 23 24. Our Modes of CommunicationKeep Changing YouTube is now second largestsearch engine in the world 1.5 million pieces of contentshared daily on Facebook 250 million visitors each monthto YouTube and Facebook Mobile devices will be worldsprimary connection tool to theInternet in 2020 24 25. Open Government Initiative Transparency promotesaccountability Participation allowspeople to contribute ideas Collaboration encouragescooperation withingovernment and withindustry25 26. Creating a Data Ecosystem1. Gather data from many places and give it freely todevelopers, scientists, and citizens2. Connect the community in finding solutions to allow collaborationthrough social media, events, platforms3. Provide an infrastructure built on standards4. Encourage technology developers to create apps, maps, and visualizationsof data that empower peoples choicesA Strategy for American5. Gather more data Innovation published and connect more people September 2009 26 27. Data.gov Provides instant accessto over 450,000datasets in easy to useformats Contributions fromUN, World Bank, and172 agencies Encouragedevelopment ofinnovative applications Drive innovation andknowledge use acrossthe globe27 28. Easy to Find Data28 29. The Power of Visualizations29 30. Powered Through AdvancedTechnologies Provides developers the tools andraw data formats to develop newcapabilities Partnership with W3C (eGovInterest Group) and with RPI forresearch in semantic web Connected to other open dataefforts across the world Data hosted in the cloud Open source platform Builds on ontologies developed inspecific areas30 31. Learn at Data.gov Resources for studentsand teachers Examples of how data isbeing used to developapps Lesson plans and videos Showcase your sciencefair project that usesgovernment data!31 32. Open Data for the Economy When the Department ofDefense released satellitedataprivate industry createdaffordable GPS devices Data from NOAA (NationalOceanic and AtmosphericAdministration) helped buildweather-related business Opportunities for private sectorare limitless32 33. Supporting Global Events Japanesetsunami, earthquake, and radiation monitoringRestore the Gulf: Deepwater Horizon Response33 34. Open Communities Community Developers Open Data Semantic Web Health Law Energy Education Ocean Safety Manufacturing Business Ethics Consumer Research and Development Human rights+ many more34 35. Energy Drives Innovation Energy.Data.govconnectsinnovators, industry, academia, andgovernment atfederal, state, and local levels35 36. Challenges Spark Ideas Energy.Data.govworks withgroups andchallenges acrossthe nation toinnovate aroundfederal data 36 37. Data Drives Decisions Apps transform datain understandableways to help peoplemake decisions37 38. Green Button Anyone can download theirhome or business energy usedata from their local utility Then use apps to manage theirenergy use to save money andgo green More at Energy.Data.gov38 39. Powered Through AdvancedTechnologies Provides developers tools and rawdata formats to develop newcapabilities Partnership with W3C: eGov Interest Group + activities, standards, and recommendations RPI for research in semantic web and open linked data Connected to other open dataefforts across the world Data hosted in the cloud Open source platform Builds on ontologies developed inspecific areas 39 40. Data.gov Capabilities Present Future Dataset Management OGPL Workflow engine and Open source platform metadata editorbuilt on Drupal + Extended Dublin Core API key registry Search API key authorization Keyword and filtering by Templates and standards basic metadata facets Application statistics 6.7 billion triples Enhanced search Geo Federated catalogs Search, harvesting, and mapacross agencies, cities, visualizations viaregions, and topics www.geoplatform.gov Vocab.Data.gov Vocab.Data.gov Vocabulary and schema Federated ontologies publishing engine for linked URIs for all data data Standards driven URIs for all health data ADMS-based metadata 40 41. 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 sourceplatform Will allow any country to create open datasite Foster communities on Data.gov Health, energy, and law plus newcommunities in education, research anddevelopment, and public safety 41 42. 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/opengovtplatform42 43. 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 communitydevelopment Share with others to understand global issuesWe need to securely architect our systems for interoperability and openness from conception.Digital Government43 44. Open Data at Cities, Counties,and States 44 45. A Global Movement HasBegun to ProvideTransparency and Democratization of Data Dont see your site?Update via @usdatagov45 46. Lets work together to set thedata free! www.Data.Gov@usdatagov jholm@jpl.nasa.gov@JeanneHolm 46