okfn, ckan & opendata at #openroma

#OpenRoma

Irina Bolychevsky@shevski

www.ckan.org                                                                                                  www.okfn.org

We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting openness in all its forms (data + content)

We build:

Communities            +              Tools

The Open Knowledge Foundation

A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.

http://opendefinition.org/

What does open mean?

To utilize digital information more effectively to improve governance, the economy and research

For example:

• Find a better way to get to work• Build more sustainable cities• Spend government money more effectively and

legitimately

Context:

• Explosion of digital information• Ever improving information technology

What problem are we trying to solve?

Open SolutionStep 1: get the data openly licenced

Step 2: make it accessible - metadata, formats,portal (ckan.org)

Step 3: start building, linking and turning data into something more - information

Built on CKAN (ckan.org)

Open source data portal software that makes it easy to publish, share and find data.• Rich search and data publishing tools• Integrated data storage, processing, viewing

and visualization• Geospatial metadata & search (including

support for INSPIRE)• Extensible and flexible: easy to adapt, extend and

integrate• Componentized structure with variety of add-ons:

stats, analytics, comments etc• Rich restful JSON API

demo.ckan.org

Evolution

From checking transparency requirement tickboxes --> to meaningfully managing data and providing access for re-use

Evolution

This means publishing data needs to become an ingrained central part of the process

Valuable, core datasets are needed (national map vs park bench locations)

Data portals need to be user focused: • lowering barriers to entry

(in browser previews)• engagement (related

items)• better user experience and

tools (data API) 

Current ClimateAccelerating momentum (e.g. http://ckan.org/instances/)

Focus on Open Source - reusable tools & sharing of experiences (UK, US, EU)

Global CKAN User Group

Open Government Partnership

Agreeing on standards (e.g. DCAT) - spec.datacatalogs.org

Europe

European Commission:

Connecting Europe Facility - €9 billion for Digital 2014 - 2020

Pan-European Open Data Portal 2013 (building on publicdata.eu)

Supporting the data ecosystem in public bodies with training, tools and consultancy https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

Results?

Heart Surgery - publishing death rates improve success rates - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8170618.stm

Brazil - publishing municipality audit reports

legislation.gov.uk - http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/worlds-first-real-commercial-open-data-curation-project/

Thank you!

Irina.Bolychevsky@okfn.org@shevski

www.ckan.org                                                                                               www.okfn.org