Open Transport at Open Belgium 2015

From closed to open data publishing

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1. Open Transport Open Knowledge International Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpaert@okfn.org @pietercolpaert
2. How far do you live from work?
3. km or min?
4. This kind of km?
5. Or this kind?
6. Who was thinking in minutes?
7. Transport has become a data problem How can we fix it? User X Meet (s)he wants to travel…
8. NMBS/SNCB A closed route planning system User X e.g., what’s the cheapest {Y}-accessible route from {A} to {B} with subscriptions {C} and {D}?
9. NMBS/SNCB A closed route planning system User X And oh right, I also want to take the bus De Lijn A closed route planning system STIB/MIVB A closed route planning system 3 apps needed
10. © Miguel Pires da Rosa CC BY
11. NMBS/SNCB A closed route planning system User X De Lijn STIB/MIVB 1 app needed? Other sources Everyone can share their data with us!
12. NMBS/SNCB A closed route planning system User X De Lijn STIB/MIVB 1 app needed... But not one actually fits my needs entirely Other sources A closed route planning system A closed route planning system
13. NMBS/SNCB User X De Lijn STIB/MIVB Not bad… Other sources A closed route planning system ran by a private company e.g., maps.google.com
14. NMBS/SNCB User X De Lijn STIB/MIVB Chooses app that fits needs best Other sources The Open Web maps.google.com iRail NextRide Other start-ups …
15. Open Knowledge A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few
16. Open Definition .org Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness) You may know us from
17. Open Transport WG Mailinglist where news, issues and events are shared Github repository where common problems are tackled Holds sessions at conferences and invites community members
18. Issues we’re tackling 1. Awareness 2. The terms we use 3. Discovery of the datasets
19. http://epsiplatform.eu/transport
20. Discovery of the datasets An open data portal… http://datahub.io Where all community members add high quality datasets
21. Terms we use https://github.com/opentransport/vocabulary