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May 21, 2015
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
@davecaraway
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First got into the open data scene by scratching my own itch: how to build a mapping application that required a lot of different data points, all of which turned out to be difficult to get access to.
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Open Data: Digital information which is available in a non-proprietary, machine-
readable format to use and modify without restriction. It preferably can be read within a
browser using javascript.
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• Common, Non-proprietary, Machine-Readable Formats
• JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, HTML• CSV is the most common format
• PDF is NOT an open data format• Micro$oft office is NOT an open data format** PDF and Word are the most common publication formats by government **
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• Open Data is delivered two ways• flat file• web service (also called API or application
programming interface)
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• Open Data can be used to • power an application• create a visualization• write journals / articles / papers
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• Any person, company, organization, government CAN produce open data
• So far, federal government has lead the way on open data
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• Open Government Initiative (2009): Whitehouse.gov/open
• Transparency promotes accountability
• Participation allows people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages cooperation within government and with industry
• Data.gov launch in May 2009 with 47 datasets
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134,349 datasets & collections349 citizen apps
90 agencies409 APIs
(As of December 2014)
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MetaData: Data ABOUT the data such as • who produced it• how often it’s updated• how to ask for updates• who to report problems to
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Project Open Data
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• Open Data Policy (2013)
• Open data as the default
• Agencies to create comprehensive data
inventories
• Data.gov harvests data inventories
• See: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/policy-
memo/
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Is open data a movement? Yes
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Is open data a joke? Depends on who you ask
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State and local government are all carrot, no stick- open data is vulnerability- constituents don’t ask for or utilize
the available data
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Open data that’s produced has questionable reliability, low responsiveness- industry offers much better reliability
than government, but why should they offer data for free?
- The same question could be asked of open source software and hardware.
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• Open data should be fluid and ongoing
• Open data should be expected and demanded if not present
• Open data should be useful, curated, clean and comprehensive
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