AMCTO Open Data Forum

November 8, 2013.

Optimizing Open Data

Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group

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Shameless PlugsOpen Knowledge Foundation

Canadian Open Data Institute

http://opendatainstitute.ca/

http://okfn.org/

Title image fromtodaysengineer.com

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Open Data Context- foundational to Open Government

Open Data

Adapted from design concept of Armiel Le Coz and Cyril Lage with permission via Creative Commons attribution license

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Why Open Data

Transparency – lots of info on this

Releasing Social & Commercial value

Participation & EngagementFocu

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Open Data- Delivering Social & Commercial Value

• Some Key Requirements for achieving goals Valued data – current, quality, reusable

Data management, maintenance & archive – full life cycle

Gov – Community engagement & collaboration

Community participation from all viewpoints – citizens, non-profit groups, academia, tech geeks …..

STANDARDS!

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Open Data- Why Lifecycle is Important

Next Level – Linked Open DataW3C www.w3.org/2011/gld/wiki/GLD_Life_cycle

Create

Store/Publish

Use/Archive

Maintain

A Simple Lifecycle View

Archive

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Open Data Value Chain- a simple view

• Example Smart City Dataflow

• Value chain … More open data, more economic & end user valueData Data

MgmtOpen DataUse/ReUse

Open DataConsumer

http://meshcities.com/index.php/meshcities/comments/what_does_a_smart_city_look_like#.Ul0UwBCBxvA

Urbiotica's Urban Operating System

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Source: adaptelec.com

Everyday standards we use …

… but in the UK

10/11/12What’s the date?

Open Data- Why Standards are Important

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Open Data Standards- Some current Examples

Citizen Service RequestOpen 311 http://open311.org/ (started 2009)

Common Open Data Formats:TXT, CSV, XML, KML, JSON (+ various proprietary formats)

TransportationGeneral Transit Feed Specification (started 2005)https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/

Partialexample

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Towards Open Data Standards- Municipal Data Reference Model

• Municipalities collect, maintain & manage same data

• Why not standardize to facilitate sharing, integration and …

• Optimizing as open data for the community

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Towards Open Data Standards- “Citadel on the Move”

• Goal – common standards for government to release open data

• Common standards benefit the application development community … and then the end users

http://www.citadelonthemove.eu/

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Towards Open Data Standards- LOTS happening!

… local to global

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Optimizing Open Data- Innovation Ecosystem

“The Best Thing to do With (Your) Data will be Thought of by Someone Else”

Dr. Rufus Pollock, Co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation

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Optimizing Open Data- Leverage tools

• Collaboration & standardization

• Seek out existing apps & software tools

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• Maintaining value of the data – currency and quality

• Standards for effective re-use of the data

• Analytics & visualization – appeals to broader audience

• Data that contributes to solving real world problems

• LISTEN to the COMMUNITY

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Thank you

jkonga@sympatico.ca

@jkonga

www.slideshare.net/jurykonga