Open Data in a Day


Adapted from Open Data Institute (Dr Dave Tarrant and Ben Cave)


Stephen Gray | Bob Harper · @StephenGray | @bobdata

Hello

  • Who are you?
  • What do you do?
  • What was your first experience of open data?
  • What do you hope to get out of the training?

Today

  • Discovering open data
  • Law and licensing
  • Making open data work for you
  • Discovering open data
  • Law and licensing
  • Making open data work for you

Aim: Discovering open data

Provide a good foundation in the principles of open data and key examples of impact

Outcomes

  • Define open data
  • Describe a number of key open data stories
  • Evaluate the challenges facing open data
  • Understand the future of open data globally

Outcomes

  • Define open data
  • Describe a number of key open data stories
  • Evaluate the challenges facing open data
  • Understand the future of open data globally

Exercise

What is Data?

5 minutes

Definition of Data (1)

A collection of facts, information and statistics that can be analysed to develop new knowledge

Definition of Data (2)

A collection of numbers assigned as values to quantitative variables and/or characters assigned as values to qualitative variables

Definition of Data (3)

The lowest level of abstraction from which information and then knowledge are derived.

data stack

Data: Information without context

Exercise

What is Open Data?

3 minutes

okf

Definition of Open (OKF)

A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

- Summary of Open Definition (v1.0)

Retired August 2014

okf

Summary definition of Open (OKF)

Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).

- Summary of Open Definition (v2.1)

Introduced August 2014

okf

Put more succinctly:

Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose.

- Summary of Open Definition (v2.1)

Introduced August 2014 (v2.1)

ODI (Version 1)

Open data is information that is available for anyone to use, for any purpose, at no cost.

- Open Data Institute FAQ

Retired November 2014

data.gov.uk

Open data is data that is published in an open format, is machine readable and is published under a license that allows for free reuse.

- data.gov.uk

The ODI

Open data is data that is made available by organisations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share.

- Open Data Institute FAQ (original)

The ODI

Open data is data that anyone can access, use and share.

- Open Data Institute FAQ (2015 and current)

General Points

  • Anyone
  • Accessible
  • No limitations on reuse
  • Free - or minimum cost

Outcomes

  • Define open data
  • Describe a number of key open data stories
  • Evaluate the challenges facing open data
  • Understand the future of open data globally
Open data has a crucial role to play in driving innovation
- Simon Hamilton MLA (Minister for Enterprise)

Twin justifications

Left Right

Trust and Transparency
 

Enabling the economy
 

Key Stories

  • Enabling transparency
  • Public good
  • Cutting costs
  • Improving services
  • Creating income

What can open data do for you? from Open Data Institute on Vimeo.

Enabling transparency

Public good

haiti_before haiti_before

OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

Cutting costs

Open Data found a £200m saving in the NHS budget

Improving services

trains Save us time and money

Open data can help decisions that affect our safety fire

Transport for London

Public transport data opened up to developers:
  • Registered developers: over 5,000
  • Apps powered by TfL open data: 362
  • Reach of apps: 4 million people
  • Value of time saved by users: £15m to £58m

Sources: TfL, Deloitte, GOVLAB

Creating income

shoothill.com
Shoothill
pikhaya.com
Pikhaya Smart Streets

Outcomes

  • Define open data
  • Describe a number of key open data stories
  • Evaluate the challenges facing open data
  • Understand the future of open data globally

Knowing what open data is

Govlab: What's in a name?

Credit: Thomas Levine

Credit: Thomas Levine

Main Challenges

  • Open by Default
  • Public confidence
  • Improving infrastructure
  • Digital divide
  • Supply vs demand

Outcomes

  • Define open data
  • Describe a number of key open data stories
  • Evaluate the challenges facing open data
  • Understand the future of open data globally
Why now?

Why now?

  • Policy Drivers
  • Technical Standards
  • Best Practice Guidelines

Participating Bodies

Policy drivers

g8 g20 world bank

Technical bodies

w3c

Best practice developers

OFD ODI

A Global Movement

Barometer http://opendatabarometer.org/data-explorer/

Exercise

What are the main challenges for open data in Northern Ireland?

10 minutes

Review

  • Define open data
  • Describe a number of key open data stories
  • Evaluate the challenges facing open data
  • Understand the future of open data globally

Knowledge
for everyone

ODI Creative Commons