nominet trust charity open data days - what is open data anyway
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Exploring different ways of understanding Open Data for Nominet Trust Open Data Days.TRANSCRIPT
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What is open data anyway?Primer
What is open data anyway?An introduction for Nominet Trust Open Data Days
January 2012
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What is open data anyway?Primer
Open data is a set of policiesand practices
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Accessible
Standardised
Re-usable
Place data online
Use common formats
Use open licenses
.csv, .xml, .txt
Open data should be...
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Open data is a response to changingtechnologies, and societies
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Technical change: Bandwidth and processing capacity to work with data has grown. We can share all layers, not just analysed information. This creates conditions, and demand, for open data.
Social change: As authority becomes decoupled from institutions, more people outside the establishment want to check on the basis of ‘evidence based practice’. We want to create our own representations, not just accept those provided by others.
Diagram
from ‘O
pen Data, D
emocracy and Public Sector R
eform’, T
im D
avies, 2010 - http://practicalparticipation.co.uk/odi/report/2010/2-3-data-and-inform
ation/#3
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Open data is what open data does
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Map of Esmee Fairbairn Grantmaking based on scraped data and OpenCharities.org datasets; Live Tube Map from http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/Bubble chart from http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2011/dec/06/england-riots-crimes-arrested
Most people’s direct experience (and idea) of open
data is of mash-ups, visualisations, websites and
mobile apps
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Open data is a philosophy& a movement
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On the one hand, recent decades have seen an elaboration of ideas of Intellectual Property, and an emphasis on information as a valuable
commercial asset: owned and enclosed by governments or corporations. On the other, open source ideas and a reaction to this new era of enclosure have inspired revitalised movements for access to knowledge (A2K) and an information
commons. Openness is seen as both an ethical good, and the only way to support global collaboration on the issues that matter.
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Open data is a foundationfor a collaborative web
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World Wide Web inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, envisaged a web not just of documents, but also of datasets - allowing people to collaborate with less friction
across organisational boundaries.
A web of open data is the next step of ‘weaving the web’.
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Open charity data is an open question
But,
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Charities can be consumers of open data sources newly available in open data and standard formats.
They can make use of new data processing tools to be more effective, and can create and use open data to add their voices to policy debates.
They can produce open data on their activities, and make it engaging with open applications, web tools and visualisations
They can participate in creating new commons of shared data between different organisations. Pooling information for common benefit and
building a new collaborative web of data.
There are many possibilities...
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