2014 11-17 crichton institute talk on open data
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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."
Do the right thing Do the thing right
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
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/
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
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)
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
http://achievementstandards.org/content/asn-toolkit
http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/
Explicit Semantics – RDF
Unique Identifiers – RDF
Useful formats – JSON
Tools for app development
http://www.citadelonthemove.eu
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
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”
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