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What is open data anyway?Primer

What is open data anyway?An introduction for Nominet Trust Open Data Days

January 2012

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Open data is a set of policiesand practices





Accessible

Standardised

Re-usable

Place data online

Use common formats

Use open licenses

.csv, .xml, .txt

Open data should be...





Open data is a response to changingtechnologies, and societies





Technical change: Bandwidth and processing capacity to work with data has grown. We can share all layers, not just analysed information. This creates conditions, and demand, for open data.

Social change: As authority becomes decoupled from institutions, more people outside the establishment want to check on the basis of ‘evidence based practice’. We want to create our own representations, not just accept those provided by others.

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http://practicalparticipation.co.uk/odi/report/2010/2-3-data-and-information/#3

http://practicalparticipation.co.uk/odi/report/2010/2-3-data-and-information/#3



Open data is what open data does





Map of Esmee Fairbairn Grantmaking based on scraped data and OpenCharities.org datasets; Live Tube Map from http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/Bubble chart from http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2011/dec/06/england-riots-crimes-arrested

Most people’s direct experience (and idea) of open

data is of mash-ups, visualisations, websites and

mobile apps



http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2011/dec/06/england-riots-crimes-arrested

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/interactive/2011/dec/06/england-riots-crimes-arrested



Open data is a philosophy& a movement





On the one hand, recent decades have seen an elaboration of ideas of Intellectual Property, and an emphasis on information as a valuable

commercial asset: owned and enclosed by governments or corporations. On the other, open source ideas and a reaction to this new era of enclosure have inspired revitalised movements for access to knowledge (A2K) and an information

commons. Openness is seen as both an ethical good, and the only way to support global collaboration on the issues that matter.





Open data is a foundationfor a collaborative web





World Wide Web inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, envisaged a web not just of documents, but also of datasets - allowing people to collaborate with less friction

across organisational boundaries.

A web of open data is the next step of ‘weaving the web’.





Open charity data is an open question

But,





Charities can be consumers of open data sources newly available in open data and standard formats.

They can make use of new data processing tools to be more effective, and can create and use open data to add their voices to policy debates.

They can produce open data on their activities, and make it engaging with open applications, web tools and visualisations

They can participate in creating new commons of shared data between different organisations. Pooling information for common benefit and

building a new collaborative web of data.

There are many possibilities...





Open data days are a way tofind out more...

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