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Open DataHighs, Lows and Big Unknowns
Tom HeathHead of Research
Open Data Institute@tommyh
My Open Data Story
A Developmental Perspective
The (Increasing) Highs
Launched March 2006 – http://freeourdata.org.uk/
Launched October 2007 – http://data.dc.gov/
source: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/05/mps-expenses-houseofcommons
Launched May 2009 – http://data.gov/
Appointed June 2009Image by Elon University, CC-BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/elonuniversity/4560487761/
In Beta September 2009 – http://data.gov.uk/
Launched April 2010 – (at big long url...)
Launched September 2010 – (another long url)
Published November 2011
Published June 2012
Launched in Beta September 2012 – http://data.gov.in/
Official Launch December 2012 – http://theodi.org/
Made? Signed? Ordered? May 2013
Signed June 2013
Signed June 2013
Released October 2013 – https://index.okfn.org/
Released October 2013 – http://opendatabarometer.org/
What did we get right?
● Strong grassroots campaigns
● Top-level (cross-party) political support
● Appealing to multiple (different) priorities
The Lows
by Freefoto, CC-BY-NC
Big Unknowns
will “open wash” lead to “peak open”?
Image by Olga Tarkovskiy, CC-BY-SA 3.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png
Image by Ulrich Atz, CC-BY-SA 3.0http://www.flickr.com/photos/elonuniversity/4560487761/
a “personal data chernobyl”
“care.data”
indifference, losing momentum
→ the evidence basemailto:[email protected]
→ commercial uptake
→ ongoing government commitments
data quality, provenance, versioning, description
web-scale discovery and reuse (inc. licensing!)
http://data.dc.gov
So what can you do?
How are you using open data?
And what have you learned?
Questions?
Acknowledgements
● Fred Saunderson and Max Heimstädt
– UK Open Data Timeline● Tim Davies
– Open Data Timeline● Ulrich Atz
– “Big, Open and Personal” Venn diagram