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Open Data Islands and Communities
Alan Dix
Tiree Tech Wave, Talis,University of Birmingham
http://alandix.comhttp://tireetechwave.org
ECCI, Edinburgh, 18th July 2014
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Open Data
everyone is doing it
Governments, Cities, local gov.
Big Data does it with MapReduceSemantic Data does it with RDF
In C21 Data is Power
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why not an island?
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island data flows
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
othercommunities
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island data flowsfrom community to world
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
1• visibility and
control• identity and
empowerment• level of detail• local knowledge
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island data flowsfrom world to community
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
2 • making the mostof open data• local decision
making• lobbying and
negotiation
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island data flowswithin the community
Community
groups and individuals
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• gossip is not enough!• sparse, dispersed population• social cohesion and economic benefits
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island data flowsbetween communities
Community
groups and individuals
othercommunities
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• sharing best practice• brand presence• interlinked data
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small may be beautfulbut …
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barriers and challenges
expertise and resources“I don’t know if any public sector has necessarily cracked the nut on attracting the right skills and capabilities,” … “The commercial sector has, because they’ve got the dollars to spend.” (Ian Bartram, Gartner)
activists – often (semi) retireesbusy life style – multiple jobs and roles
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barriers and challenges
expertise and resourcesreusable data flows
"create solutions that are easily reuseable in other European cities” (aims, Code for Europe)
even more important for small communitiesmeta-data: find and make sense of local datareusable apps, data access portals, …
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barriers and challenges
expertise and resourcesreusable data flowsinteraction design
Iimited broadband and mobile connectivityease of access without technical supportstandard formats for data entry (e.g. spreadsheet) bespoke but reusable apps/plugins, …
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barriers and challenges
expertise and resourcesreusable data flowsinteraction designheterogeneous multi-source data
make apps fit people’s data formatslong tail of small dataprovenance
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in summary … benefits to:
the communityempowerment and controlavailability of informationcommunication within and between communities
the worldimproved quality of datalevel of detail of datalocal knowledge and understanding