behind the scenes with data.gov
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Presentation about Data.gov and community and developer support shared with Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw, Poland, October 2011 #odgcampTRANSCRIPT
Behind the Scenes with Data.gov
Jeanne HolmEvangelist, Data.gov
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Open Government Initiative
• Transparency promotes accountability
• Participation allows people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages cooperation within government and with industry
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Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data – from many places and give it freely to
developers, scientists, and citizens
2. Connect the community– in finding solutions to allow collaboration
through social media, events, platforms
3. Provide an infrastructure – built on standards
4. Encourage technology developers – to create apps, maps, and visualizations
of data that empower people’s choices
5. Gather more data– and connect more people
“A Strategy for American Innovation” published September 2009
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US Open Government Action Plan• On 20 September 2011, President Obama
announced at the UN General Assembly…• Contribute Data.gov as a platform
– India and the U.S. creating open source platform– Will allow any country to create open data site
• Foster communities on Data.gov– Health, energy, and law plus new communities in
education, research and development, and public safety
• Launch International Space Apps Competition
– NASA and other space agencies will gather scientists and citizens
– Use data for global challenges: weather impacts on global economy and depletion of ocean resources
– A collaboration website will be created to facilitate citizen participation
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Data.gov
• Provides instant access to over 400,000 datasets in easy to use formats
• Contributions from UN, World Bank, and 172 agencies
• Encourage development of innovative applications
• Drive innovation and knowledge use across the globe
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Supporting Global EventsJapanese tsunami, earthquake,
and radiation monitoring
Restore the Gulf: Deepwater Horizon
Response
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Learn at Data.gov
• Resources for students and teachers
• Examples of how data is being used to develop apps
• Lesson plans and videos• Showcase your science
fair project that uses government data!
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Open CommunitiesCommunity
Restore the Gulf ✓Open Data ✓Semantic Web ✓Health ✓Law ✓Energy ✓EducationOceanResearch and DevelopmentPublic SafetyHuman rights + many more…
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• Provides developers the tools and raw data formats to develop new capabilities
• Partnership with W3C (eGov Interest Group) and with RPI for research in semantic web
• Connected to other open data efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud• Open source platform• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
Powered Through Advanced Technologies
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Easy to Find Data
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The Power of Visualizations
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K-12 Education
AgenciesInternal Stakeholders
Developers
Citizens
Industry
State, local, tribal
International
Communities: health, law,
ethics…
Achieving Global Leadership in Open Government Data
Green = government Blue = external stakeholders
Funding will drive ability to reach these goals
Academia
Cloud
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• Search• Dataset access• Communities• Geodata visualization
• Cloud-hosted data• Semantic
technologies
Data.Gov Services
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Open Data for the Economy
• When the Department of Defense released satellite data…private industry created affordable GPS devices
• Data from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) helped build weather-related business
• Opportunities for private sector are limitless
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Publicizing Data to Innovators
• Challenges and code‐a-thons (health2challenge.org)
• Many innovator “meetups” and conferences
• Annual health data-paloozas
• Over 139 applications• 50 new businesses• Thousands of lives
improved each day
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Creating Apps That Improve Lives: Asthmapolis
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Creating Apps That Save Lives: iTriage and Hospital Compare
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Creating Apps That Change Lives: Eat Your Vegetables and Food Deserts
• Eat Your Vegetables uses Health and Human Services community health data and shows obesity rates by county
• Food Deserts shows areas with a lack of access to fresh food
• Combined can inform cities and citizens how to change their behavior
• Games like Hungry Hiker helps kids make better choices– Apps for Healthy Kids
sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obama
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Use Case: Economic
• Healthtap– Provides free, reliable, and
independent health information through the use of open data and by building the world’s largest medical expert network tailored for young mothers and their children
– Won 2010 Health 2.0 challenge– Success invigorated expansion
and new hiring at HealthTap– Reaches to Data.gov datasets
(along with others)
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Real Outcomes = Better Lives
• The data delivered through the 172 agencies participating in Data.gov eases the burden on families in caring for a sick child or seeking medical information
• More importantly, the data as it’s aggregated empowers communities to make changes that improve the quality of life of citizens– ReLeaf plants trees in areas identified by Together We
Breathe as danger areas for asthma sufferers– Cities see hot spots that trigger asthma problems for their
citizens
• Each company in Health 2.0 used government data to innovate and create high-value jobs here in America
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Think Big, Start Small, InnovateData.gov Quick Facts May 2009 October 2011
Total datasets available 47 >400,000
Hits to Data.gov 0 >200 million
Apps and mash-ups by citizens and government 0 372 + 1113
RDF triples for semantic applications 0 6.7 billion
Dataset downloads 0 >2.0 million
Nations establishing open data sites 0 28
States offering open data sites 0 31
Cities in North America with open data sites 0 13
Open data contacts in Federal agencies 24 396
Agencies and subagencies participating 7 185
Communities 0 7
Community challenges 0 23
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The Path Ahead
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★• Provide simple ways to visualize the data• Create communities to understand and apply data• Connect and collaborate with small businesses, industry, and
academia to drive innovation• Develop open source open government data platform with
India for global use and further community development• Share with others to understand global issues
Be the change you want to see in the world– Ghandi
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A Global Movement Has
Begun to Provide Transparency and Democratization
of Data
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Don’t see your site? Update via @usdatagov
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Let’s work together to set the data free!
www.Data.Gov@usdatagov
[email protected]@JeanneHolm
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