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Open Data:
Movement or a Joke?
@davecaraway
First got into the open data scene by scratching
my own itch: how to build a mapping
application that required a lot of different data
points, all of which turned out to be difficult to
get access to.
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Digital information which is
available in a non-proprietary, machine-
readable format to use and modify without
restriction. It preferably can be read within a
browser using javascript.
• Common, Non-proprietary, Machine-Readable
Formats
• JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, HTML
• CSV is the most common format
• PDF is NOT an open data format
• Micro$oft office is NOT an open data format
** PDF and Word are the most common publication formats by
government **
• Open Data is delivered two ways
• flat file
• web service (also called API or application
programming interface)
• Open Data can be used to
• power an application
• create a visualization
• write journals / articles / papers
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
• Any person, company, organization,
government CAN produce open data
• So far, federal government has lead the way
on open data
• Open Government Initiative (2009):
Whitehouse.gov/open
• Transparency promotes accountability
• Participation allows people to contribute
ideas
• Collaboration encourages cooperation
within government and with industry
• Data.gov launch in May 2009 with 47
datasets
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
134,349 datasets & collections
349 citizen apps
90 agencies
409 APIs



(As of December 2014)
MetaData: Data ABOUT the data such as
• who produced it
• how often it’s updated
• how to ask for updates
• who to report problems to
Project Open Data
• Open Data Policy (2013)
• Open data as the default
• Agencies to create comprehensive data
inventories
• Data.gov harvests data inventories
• See: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/policy-
memo/
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Is open data a movement? Yes
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Open Data: Movement or a Joke?
Is open data a joke? Depends on who
you ask
State and local government are all
carrot, no stick
- open data is vulnerability
- constituents don’t ask for or utilize
the available data
Open data that’s produced has
questionable reliability, low
responsiveness
- industry offers much better reliability
than government, but why should
they offer data for free?
- The same question could be asked of
open source software and hardware.
• Open data should be fluid and
ongoing
• Open data should be expected and
demanded if not present
• Open data should be useful, curated,
clean and comprehensive
fogmine.com
@davecaraway

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Open Data: Movement or a Joke?

  • 1. May 21, 2015 Open Data: Movement or a Joke? @davecaraway
  • 2. First got into the open data scene by scratching my own itch: how to build a mapping application that required a lot of different data points, all of which turned out to be difficult to get access to.
  • 4. Open Data: Digital information which is available in a non-proprietary, machine- readable format to use and modify without restriction. It preferably can be read within a browser using javascript.
  • 5. • Common, Non-proprietary, Machine-Readable Formats • JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, HTML • CSV is the most common format • PDF is NOT an open data format • Micro$oft office is NOT an open data format ** PDF and Word are the most common publication formats by government **
  • 6. • Open Data is delivered two ways • flat file • web service (also called API or application programming interface)
  • 7. • Open Data can be used to • power an application • create a visualization • write journals / articles / papers
  • 9. • Any person, company, organization, government CAN produce open data • So far, federal government has lead the way on open data
  • 10. • Open Government Initiative (2009): Whitehouse.gov/open • Transparency promotes accountability • Participation allows people to contribute ideas • Collaboration encourages cooperation within government and with industry • Data.gov launch in May 2009 with 47 datasets
  • 12. 134,349 datasets & collections 349 citizen apps 90 agencies 409 APIs
 
 (As of December 2014)
  • 13. MetaData: Data ABOUT the data such as • who produced it • how often it’s updated • how to ask for updates • who to report problems to
  • 15. • Open Data Policy (2013) • Open data as the default • Agencies to create comprehensive data inventories • Data.gov harvests data inventories • See: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/policy- memo/
  • 20. Is open data a movement? Yes
  • 25. Is open data a joke? Depends on who you ask
  • 26. State and local government are all carrot, no stick - open data is vulnerability - constituents don’t ask for or utilize the available data
  • 27. Open data that’s produced has questionable reliability, low responsiveness - industry offers much better reliability than government, but why should they offer data for free? - The same question could be asked of open source software and hardware.
  • 28. • Open data should be fluid and ongoing • Open data should be expected and demanded if not present • Open data should be useful, curated, clean and comprehensive