Using Open data to promote Data Innovation

Why didn't you start reusing the Belgian open data yet?

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1. When are you going to start reusing Open Data from Belgium? @pietercolpaert November 26th 2015
2. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert I’m researching Linked Open Data publishing at I co-founded OPEN KNOWLEDGE BELGIUM and I’ve started a company called I‘m opening up data with
3. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert Open Trip Planner with data by @openov E.g., help me solve the question I’m working with daily: Where can you get in what amount of time? Taking into account: multimodality, criminality, your subscriptions, what you’re carrying, disabilities, accident statistics, highest chance seeing a waterbird, etc
4. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert A long tail for route planners ... And for other data services too...
5. What do you need before you are going to start reusing data?
6. Costs Benefits
7. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert 1. Certainty that you won’t get sued https://github.com/iRail/stations
8. OpenDefinition.org
9. reuse is allowed Documents on the web reuse in a gray zone unauthorised reuse
10. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert API fanboys Real data reusers 2. Technical certainties Need Open Data Want services on top of data
11. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert Where do you want data owners to put their small Open Data budget? Answer all questions for me? Getting the entire dataset at once? High availability? A JSON API? Or is scraping their website enough? Interoperable data models? Dataset split in cacheable documents? (REST API)
12. What we ask data owners Data dumps Smart servers Data publishing (cheap/reliable) Data services (rather expensive/unreliable) Entire query languages over HTTP Dataset split in fragments Smart agents algorithms as a service Read more at http://linkeddatafragments.org API fanboys Open Data
13. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert 1. It should become possible to discover data on the fly 2. We want data, just like any website, to never go down
14. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert 3. Business models API fanboys Real data reusers Need Open Data Need services on top of data Business opportunity?
15. Servers publishing Open Data e.g., • all the planned and actual arrivals and departures • the network of roads in a certain region worldwide web-services e.g., • a route planner: from → to • the closest station to your current location? Scalable businesses $$$ $ $ $$$ end-users
16. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert So... We need open datasets that are easy to use and are as reliable as a local db And we evidence of working business models!
17. What open dataset did you already reuse? Let us know: http://bit.do/datareusebe OPEN KNOWLEDGE BELGIUM
18. maximising data reuse - @pietercolpaert Two more things Want to help to set up algorithms as a service business with iRail? We’re looking for seed funding and/or clients Save the date: 29th of February in Antwerp
19. @pietercolpaert We want a world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.
20. @pietercolpaert Oh, btw, interested in waterbirds? It’s open! https://github.com/LifeWatchINBO/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/watervogels-occurrences