degrees of openness
Data.gov.uk
9040 datasets
40,000 points of data
Over 1000 maps
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2,322,657 unique visitors
Over 900m weather data points
markets
• A closed market is a crippled
market
• An open market is larger than the
sum of its parts
• Data services is one part of the
equation
• Added-value Services completes it
256 apps
barriers
• Old mechanisms for profit may
not work in the new world
• Restrictions on licensing may
well be a restriction on growth
• Do not localise your horizon
awareness
• Not knowing what I can do
means not doing it
• Usage must be a determining
factor in looking forward
• Knowing the benefits is half the
journey
discovery
• If I can’t find it, it does not
exists in my world...
• Finding data is a topological
adventure
quality
• A rose by any other name IS
NOT still a rose
• Metadata, metadata, metadata
openness
• Available, reusable,
unrestricted (it can be
conditioned)
• Of good quality, with good
metadata
• Linked and with supporting
infrastructures
We are aiming for…
• We search in the data not for
the data (results bring back content not
just references to content)
• Data IS the interface