2014 11-17 crichton institute talk on open data
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A talk at the Crichton Institute in Dumfries about open data and strategies to work towards making data more 'open'.TRANSCRIPT
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In July of 1938 FDR motored to a bucolic setting along Rockville Pike in the then-small village of Bethesda, Maryland—several miles north of the District and directly across the road from the new National Institutes of Health.The presidential car paused on a grassy knoll west of dense woodlands. FDR reached over the side of his open touring car and touched the ground with his cane, announcing "We will build it here."
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Do the right thing Do the thing right
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1) Delivery of improved public services through public bodies making use of the data
Do the right thing Do the thing right
• Discovery – DCAT-AP [& INSPIRE]
• Interoperability – Text/XML
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http://data.opendatasupport.eu/https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/home
https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/metadata/wiki/INSPIRE_profile_of_DCAT-AP_-_Core_version
DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/
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http://standards.data.gov.uk/
Open Standards for software & data
• Collaboratively Defined• Using a Transparent process• Using Due Process• Available fairly (free)• Have Market support• Have irrevocable rights compatible
with open source
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XMLText
ODF
SPARQL Query Results
CSVJSON Atom
RSS
vCard/iCal
XHTML
GML/KML
“Smart data and dumb code is a lot better than the other way round” (Eric Raymond)
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2) Wider social and economic benefits through innovative use of the data
Do the right thing Do the thing right
• Discovery – DCAT-AP [& INSPIRE]
• Interoperability – Text/XML• Explicit Semantics – RDF• Unique Identifiers – RDF• Useful formats – JSON• Tools for app development
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http://achievementstandards.org/content/asn-toolkit
http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/
Explicit Semantics – RDF
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Unique Identifiers – RDF
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Useful formats – JSON
Tools for app development
http://www.citadelonthemove.eu
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3) Accountability and transparency of delivery of our public services
Do the right thing Do the thing right
• Discovery – DCAT-AP [& INSPIRE]
• Interoperability – Text/XML• Explicit Semantics – RDF• Unique Identifiers – RDF• Useful formats – JSON• Tools for app development• Helpful Subsetting• Tutorials
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Industrialised Conversion Strategies
Excel or PDF XHTMLApache “Tika”
Relational DB
http://tika.apache.org/e.g http://www.semantechs.co.uk/
SPARQL API
“Traditional” API
CSV, JSON, XML, RDF
http://d2rq.org/d2r-serverhttp:://www.openlinksw.com/
http://apigee.come.g. https://gist.github.com/pwin/8391942
“Data As A Service”
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More Ideas
https://github.com/UKGovLD UK Government Linked Data Working Group
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/ EC Joinup Programme
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/ EPSI Platform
http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/ W3C / EC Share PSI 2.0 project
http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Main_Page W3C Data on the Web WG
http://www.citadelonthemove.eu/ EC “Citadel on the move” project