Open Data Movement around the Globe
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The document discusses the global open data movement, which began in 2006 as an extension of earlier open source and content movements. It outlines principles for open government data, the involvement of various organizations, and significant events such as international conferences and competitions promoting open data. The document concludes with a statement emphasizing the value of publicly releasing government data to benefit society and stimulate economic growth.
Open Data Movement around the Globe
- 1. Dr. Chingteng Hsiao Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica OPEN DATA MOVEMENT AROUND THE GLOBAL Prepared for “Conference on Open Data Applications in Taiwan” 2012/1/18
- 2. Open Data Movement is NOT New Open source movement in late 70’s Open content movement in late 90’s Open data movement started in 2006 8 principles of open government data were developed on December 8, 2007 Then US and UK started to open up government data in 2009 All these movements share the same philosophy that anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute the content/data — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.
- 3. Opening Data Includes Providing open API’s to access the data by service providers Opening up datasets in public sectors Crowdsourcing the data form the community Tim Berners-Lee, “It has to start at the top, it has to start in the middle and it has to start at the bottom.”
- 4. Crowdsourcing the Data Edits of OpenStreetMap in year 2008 http://vimeo.com/2598878
- 5. Releasing of APIs http://visual.ly/open-data-movement
- 6. Open Government Data http://www.data.gov/opendatasites http://opengovernmentdata.org/data/map/
- 7. A Variety of Organizations Involved in the Movement Federal or central governments State and local governments Research institutes Grassroots organizations International communities Commercial companies
- 8. All Sorts of Events around the Globe International open government data conference November 15-17, 2010 @ Washington DC Many experts from policy to technology were invited Sponsored by GSA, US Government Open data challenge April 6-June 6, 2011 A pan-European open data competition Open government data camp 2011 October 20-21, 2011 @ Warsaw, Poland 400+ participants from 40+ countries International open data hackathon December 3, 2011 More than 50 self-organized local events Barcamp, Bootcamp, Unconference openglam.org, lod-lam.net, opendata.tw
- 9. Partnership and Projects, too W3C Government linked data working group eGovernment interest group European Commission FP7 LOD2 project, 15 partners from 11 European countries and Korea Linked open data around-the-clock (LATC) project PlanetData project DataLift A project funded by ANR France Partnership among academic, institutional and industrial participants. CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) Including an open source software and a network of sites Mainly maintained by Open Knowledge Foundation
- 10. Next Stop Turning government data into gold EC 2011/12/12 press release Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes said: “…. Your data is worth more if you give it away. So start releasing it now…. Taxpayers have already paid for this information, the least we can do is give it back to those who want to use it in new ways that help people and create jobs and growth.”