How to realise a consumer-pull data economy through publishing standard Open Data

Presentation at the Irish Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) Open Source Forum, Dublin, 14 Mar 2012.

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1. © DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland – 2012 … and how to realise a consumer-pull data economy through publishing standard Open Data. Open Data
2. What is Open Data? Pro-active, public release of data produced by government agencies, on the Web, free of charge and with minimal constraints on re-use. Note: it’s not about sensitive or private information but core government data (transport, crime, education, etc.)
3. What are the benefits? •  Opening up business opportunities •  Increased transparency & accountability •  Enables to improve processes in government agencies & between agencies and citizens
4. How?
5. http://5stardata.info/
6. The Linked Open Data cloud http://lod-cloud.net
7. Who is doing Open Data? More than 200 data catalogs on national, regional or local level:http://datacatalogs.org
8. European level •  Europe’s Digital Competitiveness Report (2010) •  Digital Agenda Annual Progress Report (2011) •  INSPIRE directive for geo-spatial data
9. … and in Ireland? •  Open Data movement in Ireland •  Irish data catalogs: –  Fingal County Council –  DubLinked.ie –  CSO’s StatCentral •  EI’s National Cross-Industry WG •  Standardisation –  W3C Government Linked Data WG –  European Commission ISA •  Upcoming Irish Open Data policy
10. http://groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland
12. http://data.fingal.ie
13. http://data.fingal.ie/Applications/
14. http://county-rank.data-gov.ie/
15. Open Data benefits revisited … •  Opening up business opportunities •  Increased transparency & accountability •  Enables to improve processes in government agencies & between agencies and citizens
16. Improve processes •  Open Data is really data management •  Two approaches: – Reactive – Pro-active •  Level of openness
17. [1] up-stream [2] internal and joint projects [3] public at large
18. Does this sound familiar? •  FOI request handling •  Reporting to superordinate agency •  Service Indicators submission •  Queries from neighbouring agencies •  Queries from the public or media •  Requests for Open Data à require repetitive, manual effort
19. Information management evolution … Document
20. Information management evolution …  mismatch between data publisher and potential data consumer YCPTF you  can’t  predict  the  future  
21. A solution … •  Open Data Publishing Pipeline - ODPP •  Modular Data Management System for publishing standard Open Data, based on Open Source components. •  Deployment – On-site – Hosted service (in the cloud)