#open data + #ddj
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Slides for talk at International Journalism Festival in Perugia, 16th April 2011.TRANSCRIPT
#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
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.
