This document discusses data publishing at the OECD, including past approaches, current initiatives, and future opportunities. It outlines the different types of users that need OECD data and what they want from a data publishing platform. The OECD aims to publish data for everyone's benefit by adding value through a single publishing platform that allows users to easily find, understand, and use the data they need. This includes challenges around improving the scholarly record and reaching new audiences, as well as opportunities like creating data apps for arguments in publications. The presentation concludes by previewing some new embeddable and shareable tools being developed.
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Data Publishing at OECD, Past, Present and Future. SSP 2013
1. Data Publishing at OECD
Past. Present. Future.
Toby Green
Head of Publishing
toby.green@oecd.org
2. More data than you can shake a stick at!
So how do we publish for everyone’s benefit?
Including
him
3. User profile Typical task
Policy advisor Preparing for a speech
Business analyst Client business advice
Researcher/ Statistician Data crunching for a report
University Librarian Assisting someone with a data query
Journalist Creating a topical story and graphic
NGO/Citizen with a cause Facts to support an argument
Student Essay (for tomorrow morning)
Data aggregators/resellers Aggregate data with other sources
Developers Build an App or Viz
Who needs our data?
4. “Let me find,
understand and
use
the data I (really, really) need.”
What they really, really want . . .
5. So how do we publish for everyone?
We add a little value . . .
6. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
CD-ROM
DatasetsDataAnnuals
MOBILE
IndicatorAnnuals
MOBILE
CitationTool
DataPortal
Monographs,
Papers
MOBILE
Online Browser
Machine-Machine
Stories,
Vizualisations
eXplorer
Better Life
Index
DataLab
SinglePublishingPlatform
Shareable,Embeddable
7. “Let me find, understand and use
the data I (really, really) need.”
Single Publishing platform
8. • What is a ‘dataset’?
• Supplemental data = original datasets
• Real time datasets, versions of datasets
• Old, ‘retired’, datasets
• Citing datasets
Data publishing challenges
9. • Improving the scholarly record
• Enriching papers, monographs
• Reaching new audiences
Data publishing opportunities
10. Data Apps – WIN arguments in pubs!
Data Apps iPhone now, iPad and Android (by end July)
- iEconomy
- Factbook
11. Cool stuff . . . is this a future?
• Cool new embeddable, shareable and
personalisable charting tool (in beta)
• Data Lab
• New Data portal (2014)
No sheep (or Spice Girls) were harmed in the preparation of this presentation.
Thank You
Toby.green@oecd.org @TobyABGreen
Editor's Notes
Clay Shirky, noted US writer about all things online and digital, is, of course, a best-selling author. I bet his publisher doesn’t just push a button . . .
Accessible: where are we today?Datasets – the ‘raw fleece’ available online (OECD.Stat) and on CD-Rom. 70% free today, 100% free in 2015.Data annuals – ‘balls of wool’ – ready-made tables for those who don’t have the time or skill to extract data themselves. Available in print (still!), and online in PDF, Excel and “Read” formats.Indicator annuals – the next step up the value chain, “ready-to-wear garments” or indicator publications that combine data with explanations and context. For everyone – even via Apps.Analytical publications – a house is dependent on wool for insulation – you can’t necessarily see it, but without it the house isn’t complete. The same goes for analytical publications, you may not see the data so clearly, but the report would be incomplete without data.Stories, Vizualisation. A new area, facilitated by ICT. The analogy is bespoke, designer, dresses. Difficult to make but have a high impact!Together, they make data accessible to a broad audience. Today, as the chart shows, OECD is active in all these different ways of making data accessible and we plan to go further, especially with Indicators and Vizualisations as we develop a new data portal.
