This document discusses approaches to open data and its reuse. It outlines both top-down and bottom-up strategies, and argues that a combination of the two may be most effective. On the one hand, a top-down approach aims to harvest, harmonize and enrich data on a global scale. However, locally governed data leads to locally relevant apps. The document suggests that providing uniform data on a municipal level and using semantic data and APIs may help bridge these approaches.

1. Open Data:
what’s next?

2. Hello!
I am Jan Vansteenlandt
You can find me at @coreation or
jan@weopendata.com

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growing amount of data
portals, applications and
cross-local services

4. Open Data re-use
● Success based on the level of uniformity
● Mashing up data is hard
● Locally governed data = locally relevant apps

5. “
Hackathons are fun, but the app I
build doesn’t even work in the next
city... - definitely someone

6. Local impact
“All pharmacies? Our
pharmacy is missing and if I
check the map, we’re not the
only one.”
Last update in 2013.

7. Local impact
Gentse Feesten
Less need for booklets!
Open Tourism

8. Internal impact

9. Bottom-up
● Uniform data on a municipality level
● Semantic data
● API’s

10. “
Successful business ideas are based
on secrets. - Peter Thiel

11. Top-down
Provide a URI for
every company.

12. Top-down
Provide a URI for
every company.

13. Top-down
● Harvest data
● Harmonize and enrich
● Internal/External re-use

14. Bottom-up
Local initiatives
Data & Meta-data focus
Simplifying internal processes
Focus on social value
Enabling businesses
Approach
Top-down
Global impact
Business driven
Technical challenge means
opportunity
Enrich & connect

15. DCAT
What datasets do we have?
What datasets do you have?

16. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONEData Portal
How can we publish data?
How can we use data?

17. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONEHow do we benefit?

18. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

19. BusinessesEnricht & Connect

20. Meet in the middle

21. Let’s wake up the
panel

22. Reality check
What data are you using in your business?

23. Government
Uniformisation through feedback?

24. Scaling
Scaling abroad, hard to tackle?

25. Ideal world
What’s the next best thing for your
endeavours.

26. Q&A
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