Open Data: General Concepts and Applications
- 1. Open Data: General Concepts and Applications Carlos Lourenço (864863) Núria A.Vilarrasa (984336)
- 2. Open Data definition « Data distributed so that anybody is able to use, reuse and distribute it or its modifications. » The only requirements might be to attribute and share alike. 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 2
- 3. Technical aspects of Linked Data • RDF standard • SemanticWeb – Link with URIs to identify concepts – Web of Data Linked Data ≠ Open Data 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 3
- 4. 5 star system for linked data 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 4
- 5. Open Government Data • Sebastopol (2007) – 1st time OGD is discussed • The 8 principles • Advantages: – Transparency – Citizenry engagement – Social and commercial value 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 5
- 6. United States • July 1966 – Freedom of Information Act • January 2009 – Open Government Initiative – Obama Administration – data.gov launched in May 2009 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 6
- 7. NewYork City • April 1993 – Public Data Directory – FOIA request for access • March 2012 – Open Data Law « In NYC, open data is the law. » 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 7
- 8. NYC BigApps Competition • Presented on October 2009 • Datasets to tacke city issues • It was a failure. 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 8
- 9. NYC BigApps Competition From 2013 onwards • Challenges defined by the organisation: – Transport – Knowledge – Community Resiliency • Underserved groups targetted: – Youth – Seniors – Immigrants 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications • Participation on 2017 ed. (Jan – Apr) – 500 people submitting 150 projects – Best participation in 8 years 9
- 10. CityBikes • Problem – Hard to find updated information about Bicing, BCN’s bike sharing system • Simple Solution – Scraping data from Bicing’s website • Aftermath – Focus on the global scale, +400 cities – APIs open and available online 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 10
- 11. citybik.es 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 11
- 12. OpenStreetMap • Aim – Free editable world map • Database of geospatial data – From GPS, satellite imagery, etc. • Contributors – Companies or individuals • Interesting case: Crisis mapping 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 12
- 13. 2010 Haiti earthquake • Earthquake – 12th January 2010 at 16:53 – 25km from the capital (Port-au-Prince) – Magnitude 7.0 Mw – Over 3 million affected people 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 13
- 14. OSM aid after Haiti earthquake • HQ imagery after 48 hours • Allowed crisis mappers to digitalise • Support organisations used this map • Aftermath: Humanitarian OSMTeam – Help by mapping vulnerable areas – Also has long-term projects 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 14
- 15. Proposition 8 • November 2008, US, California • Legal right to same-sex marriage • California discloses 2 datasets about: 1. Voter information 2. Campaign finance information «What could possibly go wrong? » 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 15
- 16. Eightmaps 14/06/2017 Open Data: General Concepts and Applications 16
- 17. Conclusions Open Data: General Concepts and Applications14/06/2017 17