the next generation of open data
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Anthea Watson Strong, Google
No Revisions No Near Real-Time
No Context No Stories
No Small Data No Answers
No Collaboration No Conversations
Stale Data No/little Metadata
Not Institutionalized Additional Burden
Innovation Tax
#FancyFTPServer
OVER $300 MILLION. :) AT ONE POINT, 50% OF THE CD’S PRODUCED WORLDWIDE HAD AN AOL LOGO ON IT.
Jan Brandt AOL Head of Marketing
HOW MUCH DID AOL SPEND?
#NextGenOpenData is Open Source
• Ecosystem• Data Publishers / Other Cities & Agencies • Curators • Users • Developers • Third-Party Vendors
• No Innovation Tax Don’t penalize me for using the system
• Allow users to “Scratch Itches” Innovation without Permission
• #BuildWithNotFor Let me Build it with Ecosystem partners, not just one vendor
#NextGenOpenData is “Open Standards”
• Metadata Standards• Project Open Data • DCAT, Data Packages, etc. • schema.org, permitdata.org
• Technology Standards• SQL - not dialect, real queries • Linux - OS standard • AWS - market standard
• File Standards• JSON, GeoJSON • CSV • little to no PDFs
• Data Standards• ISO 8601 date format • WGS84 - lat/longs
“Open Standards” are pragmatic, widely-deployed, simple standards
A pragmatic standards success!
schema.org
Cities that Work like the WebInstead of one big data portal, each jurisdiction/organization will have a hosted mini-portal, as they know their data best and each jurisdiction can be tailored to their needs/workflows.
Boston Globe
Suffolk County
Boston
NGO
Business Improvement
District
Metropolitan Area Planning
Council
Boston University
Cambridge
City Council
DOiTT
Public Library
Fire Dept
Police Dept
MITNeighborhood
Assoc
Small City 1
Transit Authority
DOT
NGO 1
NGO 2
CfA Brigade
Hubway
BarnstableSomerville
MTA
Web of
Data
#NextGenOpenData is Infrastructure
• Not a #FancyFTPServer
• Use Best-of-Breed tools allow me to use 3rd-party tools, not just your tools ("Not invented here")
• Can support Transactional Workloads to build Smart City/Gov systems
• IT-friendly
The Standard Gauge accelerated the Industrial Revolution
…the same way Elevator, Plumbing & Building
Standards redefined the City
#NextGenOpenData is Open Knowledge
• Useful, Usable & Used• Agencies (It has to be USEFUL to Agencies!!!)• Researchers • Journalists • Developers (Internal & External) • YOU!
• Integrated into day-to-day Workflowbeyond transparency/data publishing
• Curated/Linked
• “Small Data”answers - usable insights/KPIs, not raw data
THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE CLICK ADS. THAT SUCKS.
Jeff Hammerbacher co-founder Cloudera
CALL TO ACTION TO DATA SCIENTISTS
Trust in Wall Street is also Low
Thanks!
[email protected] • @jqnatividad • opengov.com
YOU can Help Build the Smart Cities of our Future with
#NextGenOpenData
East - Boston - May 2016