COMIT Sept 2016 - Open Data (Paul Wilkinson)
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The document discusses the evolution of open data in the construction industry, emphasizing its importance for collaboration and efficiency. It outlines the UK’s leadership in open data initiatives since 2010 and argues for the benefits of data openness while acknowledging challenges such as privacy concerns and costs. The text also highlights the significance of linked data and big data in enhancing construction practices through informed decision-making and continuous customer relationships.
COMIT Sept 2016 - Open Data (Paul Wilkinson)
- 1. Open Data: Digitalisation and the industry currently known as construction Paul Wilkinson director, pwcom.co.uk Ltd
- 2. Data Disruption Moving from document-centric to data-centric collaboration Beyond business intelligence (BI): 'Big Data' 'The Internet of things' 'Smart Cities' • Web 3.0 - the semantic web Q: Do today's AEC businesses get the built environment 'Big picture'?
- 3. Open Data “… some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.” (source: Wikipedia) • Open data is data that anyone can access, use or share. It is published under a licence expressly permitting its access, reuse, sharing and modification. • It is not subject to restrictions, licenses, copyright, patents and charges for access or re-use.
- 4. Open Data Open data does not involve indiscriminate use of all information. It relates to the controlled release of certain types of data that: • is not confidential • does not contravene personal data protection provisions • does not compromise commercial relationships or intellectual property rights • does not threaten the security of individuals or organisations
- 6. Open Data in the UK • In 2010 UK created the Open Government License and Data.gov.uk site (OS and TfL, among others, began to contribute some data sets for public use) • Since 2010, UK has become a world leader in open data • In July 2013, UK signed G8 Open Data Charter • UK has topped all three editions of global Open Data Barometer since 2013 • In October 2015, UK was one of 17 signatories to International Open Data Charter
- 7. Why go ‘open?’ Arguments in support of open data include: • "Data belong to the human race” – genomes, data on organisms, medical science, environmental data, etc. • “Publicly funded work should be public” • “Data is an enabler” – of socio-economic development (healthcare, education, transport, economic activity, etc.) • “Openness enhances research value”
- 8. Why not ‘open?’ Arguments against open data principles include: • Privacy – access to data should be limited to specific users or to sub-sets of the data • Remuneration – collecting, 'cleaning', managing and disseminating data can be labour- and/or cost-intensive • Cross-funding • Cost-recovery • Additional processing – Raw data may need additional processing (analysis, apps etc) to be useful to others
- 9. Data released by governments should be:
- 18. What does this mean in construction? Government’s Construction strategy (May 2011) defined need to: “derive significant improvements in cost, value and carbon performance through the use of open shareable asset information”
- 19. Linked Data “... if the past was document sharing, the future is data sharing” (Tim Berners-Lee) 1. A URL should point to the data. 2. Anyone accessing URL should get data back. 3. Relationships in the data should point to additional URLs with data.
- 20. Why is linked data important for construction? • Linked data connects and provides context to social interactions and to data about the physical world we live in. • BIM will increasingly apply Linked Data principles throughout the asset lifecycle. Finding and linking relevant, related information will become increasingly important.
- 22. Linked data
- 23. 'Big Data' 'Big data' generators include: • mobile devices • software logs • cameras • microphones • RFID readers • wireless sensor networks • streaming instrumentation
- 24. 'Big Data' and construction • Construction very information-intensive • Traditionally paper-based • Now more (mainly unstructured) data captured, but not always de-silo'ed • Opportunities to mine existing data, and to combine with other internal and external data sources – acquired, licensed or open (eg: Land Registry)
- 25. Digitalisation and the industry currently known as construction
- 26. Digitisation and the economy Mckinsey Global Institute (December 2015) Digital America: A tale of the haves and the have-mores
- 27. Digitisation and the economy
- 28. Mckinsey Global Institute (December 2015) Digital America: A tale of the haves and the have-mores
- 29. Mckinsey Global Institute (June 2016) Digital Europe: Pushing the Frontier, Capturing the Benefits.
- 30. Digital Built Britain • The creation of a set of new, international ‘Open Data’ standards which would pave the way for easy sharing of data across the entire market • The establishment of a new contractual framework for projects which have been procured with BIM to ensure consistency, avoid confusion and encourage open, collaborative working. • The creation of a cultural environment which is co-operative, seeks to learn and share • Training the public sector client in the use of BIM techniques such as data requirements, operational methods and contractual processes • Driving domestic and international growth and jobs in technology and construction
- 31. Synthesis of multiple trends Digital Built Britain
- 33. Four possible implications of converging trends • Suppliers increasingly focus on value-adding business outcomes: “asset services” backed by data (eg: 'illumination', not light fittings) • More 'whole asset life-cycle' data-connected approaches • Rationalised, more integrated supply chain organisations (vertical industry specialists – joined by data) • Construction = data-driven, lean, safer, lower carbon ... “sophisticated manufacturing”
- 34. Industry 4.0 – WIIFM? • As we move from selling one-off assets to providing real- time data-driven asset services, the customer relationship moves from occasional to continuous. • Data both deepens the relationship and keeps the brand 'front of mind'.