Open Goverment Data: What, why, how?
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This document discusses open government data and its benefits. It defines open government data as data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone for any purpose. The key benefits mentioned include better public services, economic growth, accountability, innovation and efficiency. The document provides an overview of open data initiatives in Europe and outlines the typical four steps to making government data open: 1) using an open license, 2) making data technically open and accessible, 3) making data easy to find through data portals, and 4) engaging with data users. It encourages joining the open data community.
Open Goverment Data: What, why, how?
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- 3. What?
- 4. What is 'open government data'?
- 6. Re-use
- 8. … to legal clarity.
- 9. Open data: free for anyone to reuse or redistribute for any purpose
- 10. use reuse “open” = redistribution commercial reuse C derivative works “do what you like” may require: - attribution - sharing back
- 12. Why?
- 13. Better public services Economic growth Accountability Governance Innovation Efficiency
- 14. Enable people to make useful, valuable things with government data
- 15. New ways of representing data
- 20. Put policies into context
- 23. New ways of delivering data
- 30. A richer data ecosystem
- 32. Not just about government
- 33. More pairs of eyes
- 36. Social value and economic value
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- 38. Open government data in Europe? Austria Germany Netherlands Belgium Greece Poland Bulgaria Hungary Portugal Cyprus Ireland Romania Czech Republic Italy Slovakia Denmark Latvia Slovenia Estonia Lithuania Spain Finland Luxembourg Sweden France Malta United Kingdom
- 39. Open government data in Europe? Austria Germany Netherlands Belgium Greece Poland Bulgaria Hungary Portugal Cyprus Ireland Romania Czech Republic Italy Slovakia Denmark Latvia Slovenia Estonia Lithuania Spain Finland Luxembourg Sweden France Malta United Kingdom
- 40. “I have said it before, and I say it again: yes to open data!” EC Vice President Neelie Kroes
- 42. OpenDataChallenge.org €20k, 60 days
- 43. How?
- 44. 4 main steps
- 45. 1. MAKE DATA LEGALLY OPEN
- 46. A. Use an existing license/legal tool
- 47. Public Domain (no rights reserved) - Public Domain Dedication & License (PDDL) - Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Attribution (you must give credit) - Open Data Commons Attribution (ODC -BY) - Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 'Sharealike' (you must share back) - Open Data Commons Attribution-Sharealike (ODbL) - Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike (CC-BY-SA)
- 48. B. Create your own license/legal tool
- 50. “Public data will be released under the same open licence which enables free reuse, including commercial reuse – all data should be under the same easy to understand licence.” Public Data Principles data.gov.uk
- 51. Make sure it is “open” as in opendefinition.org
- 52. 2. MAKE DATA TECHNICALLY OPEN
- 53. “Raw data now!”
- 54. 3. MAKE DATA EASY TO FIND
- 59. http://ckan.org - Open source, themable, flexible - Lots of useful features - Powers 30+ data catalogues data.gov.uk data.norge.no data.overheid.nl
- 61. Events, competitions, hackdays, ...
- 62. Listen to what data reusers want
- 63. Be part of the open data community
- 64. More info?
- 65. Find out about open government data around the world: http://opengovernmentdata.org
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- 68. Join the open government data community: http://bit.ly/ogd-list
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