Open Data: Lessons from the field

Yannis CharalabidisAssistant Professor, University of the AegeanManager, Greek Interoperability Centre

3rd Kingdom eGovernment Summit, September 2012

Why is Open Data important ?Organises public knowledgeLeads to better, new servicesFights against corruptionSupports transparency Can motivate citizens Can contribute to better democracy Gives data to other sciences Gives ideas for start-ups

Can you give us some good examples ?

Organises public knowledge : data.gov (UK)Leads to better, new services : data.gov (US)Supports transparency: diavgeia.gr (GR)Can motivate citizens: toronto.ca (CA)Fights against corruption :

ipaidabribe.com (IN)Can contribute to better democracy:

opengov (GR) Gives ideas for start-ups:

Open Data Institute (UK)Provides data to science for solving complex

problems of the society: ENGAGE (EU)

The ENGAGE EU project on Open DataA European e-Infrastructure, for advancing

open data provision across countries To provide state of the art methods and tools

for data gathering, curation, publication, maintenance

A public-private partnership of research (GIC, Uni Aegean, TU Delft, FOKUS) industry (Microsoft, IBM, Intrasoft) and administrations from 5 EU countries

Looking for “open data ambassadors” all over the world

www.engage-project.eu

The ENGAGE “Two-way” Usage Scenarios

Delivering Public Sector Data to Researchers and Citizens

Delivering Open Data Needs and guidelines to Public Sector Organisations

Open Data platforms architecture

User Interface

(for people)

Application Interface

(for systems)

Various Apps(PC &

mobile)

Data Curation

(annotation, linking, formats)

Data Visualisation Data Linking

Data Acquisition

UI

Data Acquisition

API

Directories of sources

Open Data Platform architecture

Providing PSI to research communities and citizens in a personalised manner

Curating, Annotating, Harmonising , Visualising

Gathering data from governmental organisations and systems (the Gov Cloud)

Data LinkingData Linking Semantic AnnotationSemantic Annotation AnonymisationAnonymisation HarmonisationHarmonisation

Visualisation - Analytics

Visualisation - Analytics

Search and Navigation tools

Search and Navigation tools

Social sciencesSocial

sciences

Data Service Provision Infrastructure

Data Curation Infrastructure

Public Sector Information Sources

Tailored data services

Research and Industry Research and Industry Governance and

policy makingGovernance and

policy makingCitizens and education

Citizens and education

Data analytics

Data analytics

Knowledge / Data Mining Knowledge / Data Mining Directory services

and direct linking to data archives

Directory services and direct linking to

data archives

ICTICTCitizensCitizens

Natural Sciences and Engineering

Natural Sciences and Engineering GovernanceGovernance

User groups

Collaboration / Communities

Collaboration / Communities

PersonalisationPersonalisation

Single point of Access

Single point of Access

Data QualityData Quality Knowledge MappingKnowledge Mapping

Public Organisations, Repositories, Databases

LawLawPolicy

Modelling Policy

Modelling

Automatic curation algorithmsAutomatic curation algorithms

Current Challenges for Open Data Platforms

Metadata schemas : how to classify information so that it can be retrieved

Full API and SaaS operation: automated, direct input and publication of open data “from the source”

Citizens providing open data themselves

Novel ways of visualisation for open / linked data

Build ecosystems around open data, for sharing and usage that can make our lives better, for real

As a conclusion

Open data, collaborative governance and ICT will be key pillars of the new, value-based administration in this century

Open data and applications can play an important role for entrepreneurship and development

European Union member states, having already adopted a collaborative governance example, can now partner and work together with Gov 2.0 initiatives internationally

In the Greek Interoperability Centre and the University of AEGEAN we can leverage on European experiences and best practices, delivering them worldwide

Open Data: Lessons from the fieldYannis CharalabidisAssistant Professor, University of the AegeanManager, Greek Interoperability Centre

Thank you !

Stay tuned at yannisx@aegean.gr

Twitter : yannisc

The top-10 countries

in the world

The European “model”

The top-10 countries

in Western Asia

Saudi Arabia:

41st in the world,

4th in the region

Un e-Participation IndexCountry E-Participation Index

Republic of Korea 1

Netherlands 1

Singapore 0,9474

Kazakhstan 0,9474

United States of America 0,9211

United Kingdom 0,9211

Israel 0,8947

Australia 0,7632

Estonia 0,7632

Germany 0,7632

Finland 0,7368

Japan 0,7368

United Arab Emirates 0,7368

Colombia 0,7368

Canada 0,6842

Norway 0,6842

Sweden 0,6842

Egypt 0,6842

Bahrain 0,6579

Chile 0,6579

Russian Federation 0,6579

Saudi Arabia 0,6316