5 stars of Open Data Portals

Presented at the open gov working group meeting of Open Knowledge Foundation (http://okfn.org)

http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/

1. The 5 stars of Open Data Portals Pieter Colpaert @pietercolpaert http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/
2. Publicdata.eu for example
3. What should a gov data portal do? But...
4. What should a portal do? make data discoverable Stimulate the reuse of data Keep track of its reuse provide an interface to access the data describe the data using meta-data standards Keep an eye on the identifiers used make sure the datasets are interoperable versioning List tools to work with the data Provenance information … a lot Share stories about the datasets
5. What should a portal do? ★ A dataset registry ★★ A meta-data provider ★★★ A co-creation platform ★★★★ A data publishing platform ★★★★★ A common data hub http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/
6. ★ A dataset registry A list of links to datasets
7. data.gov.uk/data/dumps Make the meta-data Open Data ★★ A meta-data provider Structure the meta-data DCAT VoID dcterms ... Vocabularies
8. ★★★ A co-creation platform A conversation with reusers
9. ★★★★ A data publisher Make the data flawless to work with a URI strategy semantic interoperability syntactic & technical interoperability of all datasets e.g., data.gent.be JSON, HTML, CSV… over HTTP using principles: REST, hypermedia, Linked Open Data… Help discussing: Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group Charter by W3C Slow convergence:
10. ★★★★★ A common datahub Distributed version control(?) Process machine readable feedback Track provenance Cfr. distributed version control in open source software management
11. Still very experimental... ★★★★★ A common datahub Git for triples rawbase.github.io/ dat-data.com/ github.com/
12. Does your data portal reach 5 stars? ★ A dataset registry ★★ A meta-data provider ★★★ A co-creation platform ★★★★ A data publishing platform ★★★★★ A common data hub http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/
13. Thank you Pieter Colpaert @pietercolpaert http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/
14. Credits http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/ jennicatpink on flickr: thank you for your owl