I used this presentation slide during the "Half Day Seminar on Open Standards" which was organized by Open Knowledge Nepal on the occasion of Document Freedom Day 2015.

1. Open Knowledge, Open Data,
Open Standards and Open
Formats
Nikesh Balami
Open Knowledge Nepal
www.neekes.com.np

2. The Open Knowledge
➢ We are a global network using advocacy and technology to
open up knowledge and see it used to empower citizens and
organizations to drive positive change.
➢ We build tools and communities to create, use and share
open knowledge - content and data that everyone can use,
share and build on.
➢ We believe that by creating an open knowledge commons and
developing tools and communities around this we can make a
significant contribution to improving governance, research
and the economy.

3. Working Groups (okfn.org/wg)

4. What do we mean by open?

5. “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free
to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at
most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-
alike” - http://opendefinition.org/

6. What means Open Data?
Open data involves:
➢ the proactive disclosure of information;
➢ the Internet being the primary medium for such disclosure;
➢ information being made available for access and for reuse free of charge
and;
➢ information being made available in a machine-readable format to enable
computer-based reuse.

7. Why Open Data?
➢ Innovation, Efficiency and Transparency
➢ The Many Mind Principle - The best thing to do with your data
will be thought of by someone else
➢ Fixing is Faster with Open Data - To many eyes all bugs are
shallow

8. What Kinds?

9. How to Make Data Public??

10. 1) Mandate data formats for maximal technical access
2) Provide comprehensive and appropriate formats for
varied uses

11. 3) Remove restrictions for accessing information
4) Mandate data be explicitly license - free

12. 5) Mandate the use of unique identifiers
6) Require code sharing or publishing open source

13. 7) Publish bulk data
8) Optimize methods of data collection

14. 9) Mandate ongoing data publication and updates
10) Create permanent, Lasting access to data

15. Now Open Standards and Open
Format

16. Open Standards allow people to share all kinds of
data freely and with perfect fidelity. They prevent
lock-in and other artificial barriers to interoperability,
and promote choice between vendors and technology
solutions. - FSFE

17. Why Open Standards Important?
➢ Provide you with an adaptable design
➢ Give you greater choice
➢ Make it possible for your digital services to change over
time
➢ Rapid Development
➢ Leverage Existing Skills

18. Open Format??
An Open File Format is a published specification for
storing digital data, usually maintained by a standards
organization, and which can be used and implemented by
anyone.
Source: Wikipedia

19. Note that because the various definitions of
"Open Standard and Open Formats" differ
in their requirements, the examples listed
below may not be open by every definition.

20. Examples:
# Image
➢ GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
➢ PNG
➢ SVG
➢ MNG
➢ APNG
➢ JEPG 2000
etc etc..

21. Examples:
# Video
➢ Dirac
➢ Matroska (MKV)
➢ Webm
➢ Theora
etc etc...

22. Examples:
# Audio
➢ ALAC
➢ FLAC
➢ OGG
➢ Musepack
➢ Vorbis
etc etc..

23. Examples:
# Text
➢ Plain Text
➢ HTML
➢ Unicode
➢ DVI
➢ LaTeX
➢ Office Open
➢ Open Document
➢ PostScript
➢ Various Subsets of PDF
➢ ePub
etc etc..

24. Examples:
# Archiving and Compression:
➢ 7Z
➢ Zip
➢ TAR
➢ gZip
➢ PAQ
etc etc..

25. Open Document Formats:
➢ Comma-Separated Values (CSV)
➢ Tab-Separated Values (TSV)
➢ Excel Spreadsheets (XLS/XLSX)
➢ Extensible Markup Language (XML)
➢ JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
➢ Resource Description Format (RDF)
➢ RDF Site Summary (RSS Feeds)

26. Why All This??

27. Past:

28. Present:

29. Future:

30. This increase the value of Open Standards

31. The Primary goal is to make the data accessible
and to create the interface or experience that
makes it most useful to those who needs it.

32. Let's Follow:
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's
thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world”.
- Johan Wolfgang VoGoethe

33. Thank You!!