ORGpediaThe Open Organizational

Data Project

Prof. Beth Simone NoveckJoel Gurin, Executive Director

Website: info@3RoundStones.com@3RoundStones

Main +1-877-290-2127Direct +1-571-331-3758

ORGpedia site development team:Luke Ruth, Application Developer

David Wood, CTOBernadette Hyland, CEO

Funded by the

Project: Do Tankhttp://dotank.nyls.edu

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Agenda

• Update on ORGpedia site development

• Project status

• Datasets

• Functionality review

• Review Next steps

• NYU stakeholder review

• Engaging contributors

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Problem Statement• Taxpayers spend billions to have government collect data

• Machine readable content is the new default for government (OS&T M13-13)

• Yet finding, accessing and combining data is difficult ...

• ORGpedia: the Open Organizational Data Project is opening new possibilities

• Based entirely on Open Web Standards, Open Source & open government data

• Leverages the crowd for data augmentation

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Project Status HighlightsORGpedia Phase 1 began 15-April 2013Completed as of 20 June 2013

• Site live (QA)

• Data platform installed on Rackspace Cloud

• Use case: Combine open government data from regulatory agencies for nuclear plants

• Data sets: EPA Facilities, EPA Toxic Releases, NRC Violations, SEC, Open Street Maps, DBpedia

• User Contributions

• Wikipedia

• Open Corporates

• Visualizations: maps & charts

• Support for public & authenticated users thru Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

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ORGpedia Datasets

• U.S. EPA

• Facilities

• Toxic Releases

• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Violations

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ORGpedia is Innovative

• Combines US Government Regulatory data without the expense, time and high failure rate of traditional approaches

• Leverages crowdsourcing to fix dirty data and builds on expert and/or local knowledge

• Open vs. proprietary approach

• Creates opportunity for new businesses & startups

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Technical Innovation

• Linked Data --> Easy combination of datasets

• Leverages an innovative Open Source data platform (Callimachus)

• Crowdsourced contributions

• Contributions overlay (do not overwrite) authoritative data

• Web-scale

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“Linked Data allows for cooperation without coordination”

- David Wood

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OpenStack Cloud Services Amazon Web Services

Traditional networks

Persistent URL (PURL)Services

Linked DataServices

Mobile Web Print

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ORGpedia is Interactive

• The public can view, comment, discuss

• Contributors can:

• overlay controlled fields

• Associate facilities with Linked Open Data and other Web content (e.g. stock quotes, images)

• Template-driven approach make extending the site easy

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ORGpedia User Contributions

Add/modify

• EPA Facility name

• Wikipedia abstract

• Corporate Owner(s)

• Wikipedia abstract

• Open Corporates ID

• Stock ticker

• SEC ID

• Related images

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Edit icons appear

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Contribution history

maintained

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ORGpedia Site Summary• Addresses a compelling problem

• Live site

• Hosted on the cloud

• Driven by Open data

• Government

• Linked Open Data

• Crowdsourced

• Open Source Data platform

• Template driven approach

• Drives hundreds of millions of web pagesCallimachus

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Pitching ORGpedia ...About the project and case studies

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