Future Everything: Open Data

Open Transport, services vs. data and a business model for Open Data

http://transport.okfn.org
http://thedatatank.com
http://dev.flatturtle.com

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1. Open Data in transport, open data vs. services and a business model Pieter Colpaert
2. How far do you live from work?
3. Minutes or kilometers?
5. http://epsiplatform.eu/transport
6. Making Open Data used and useful, worldwide, since 2004
7. and many more
8. Open Definition.org A dataset is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.
9. Confusing World of services ? World of Open Data
10. You don’t need an API to publish data APIs enable services on top of open data...
11. You use APIs to… use data in apps But… are hypermedia interfaces APIs? See a list of government services in your browser GET http://{yourcity}/services Accept: “text/html” Get a JSON feed in your apps GET http://{yourcity}/services Accept: “application/ld+json” Small datasets directly available in different formats at the URI they are identified by
12. First steps… Check out http://demo.TheDataTank.com CSV XML SHP SPARQL XLS ... http://... interface
13. You use APIs to… gather feedback This toilet needs cleaning Openly licensed data dump at: http://wiki. openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
14. You use APIs to… provide updates https://data.irail.be/NMBS/Liveboard/ Ghent%20Sint%20Pieters/ 2014/03/27/14/20 .json Raw data still at: http://datahub. io/dataset/timetables-for-the-belgian- railway-company
15. You use APIs to… provide services Full text search, autocompletion API, querying interfaces (public SQL endpoints?)...
16. You don’t need an API to publish data APIs enable services on top of open data...
17. Open Data and APIs, where’s the money? Service Level Agreements for data
18. Thank you Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpaert@okfn.org @pietercolpaert Researcher Linked Open Data at Ghent University Chairman Open Knowlegde Foundation (OKFN) Belgium Thinks Open Transport WG at OKFN is going to solve world problems also founded http: //FlatTurtle.com
19. visualising the accessibility of your location on a display Services, data and source code available at http://dev.flatturtle.com