okfn, ckan & opendata at #openroma
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#OpenRoma
Irina Bolychevsky@shevski
www.ckan.org www.okfn.org
We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting openness in all its forms (data + content)
We build:
Communities + Tools
The Open Knowledge Foundation
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.
http://opendefinition.org/
What does open mean?
To utilize digital information more effectively to improve governance, the economy and research
For example:
• Find a better way to get to work• Build more sustainable cities• Spend government money more effectively and
legitimately
Context:
• Explosion of digital information• Ever improving information technology
What problem are we trying to solve?
Open SolutionStep 1: get the data openly licenced
Step 2: make it accessible - metadata, formats,portal (ckan.org)
Step 3: start building, linking and turning data into something more - information
Built on CKAN (ckan.org)
Open source data portal software that makes it easy to publish, share and find data.• Rich search and data publishing tools• Integrated data storage, processing, viewing
and visualization• Geospatial metadata & search (including
support for INSPIRE)• Extensible and flexible: easy to adapt, extend and
integrate• Componentized structure with variety of add-ons:
stats, analytics, comments etc• Rich restful JSON API
demo.ckan.org
Evolution
From checking transparency requirement tickboxes --> to meaningfully managing data and providing access for re-use
Evolution
This means publishing data needs to become an ingrained central part of the process
Valuable, core datasets are needed (national map vs park bench locations)
Data portals need to be user focused: • lowering barriers to entry
(in browser previews)• engagement (related
items)• better user experience and
tools (data API)
Current ClimateAccelerating momentum (e.g. http://ckan.org/instances/)
Focus on Open Source - reusable tools & sharing of experiences (UK, US, EU)
Global CKAN User Group
Open Government Partnership
Agreeing on standards (e.g. DCAT) - spec.datacatalogs.org
Europe
European Commission:
Connecting Europe Facility - €9 billion for Digital 2014 - 2020
Pan-European Open Data Portal 2013 (building on publicdata.eu)
Supporting the data ecosystem in public bodies with training, tools and consultancy https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/
Results?
Heart Surgery - publishing death rates improve success rates - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8170618.stm
Brazil - publishing municipality audit reports
legislation.gov.uk - http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/worlds-first-real-commercial-open-data-curation-project/
