The document discusses open data and Devon County Council's open data initiative. It defines open data and explains its benefits, including greater transparency. It outlines what data Devon County Council is required to publish, such as spending over £500 and senior salaries. It also discusses linked data and provides an example of linking geographic data about Devon to other datasets to provide context.

1. Open Data Mark Painter Strategic Intelligence Devon County Council

2. What is Open Data? Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

3. What is Open Data? In open formats Free for re-use

4. Why? Greater transparency of public bodies is at the heart of enabling the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account . Where public money is involved there is a fundamental public interest in being able to see how it is being spent, to demonstrate how value for money has been achieved or to highlight inefficiency . Publication of data should also be used to open new markets for local business, the voluntary and community sectors and social enterprises to run services or manage public assets The Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency

5. Benefits Transparency Delivering services to/on behalf of Government Improving commercial activities Efficiency http://hadleybeeman.net/2011/01/26/uses-for-open-data/

6. What are we doing?

7. Spending over £500

9. What others are doing? Kent Warwickshire Brent

10. What others are doing? OpenlyLocal

11. The 5 step journey Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open license As for one star plus available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. Excel instead of an image of a table) As for two star plus use a non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV and XML) All the above plus use open standards from the World Wide Web Consortium (such as RDF and SPARQL21) All the above plus link your data to other people’s data to provide contex

12. What is Linked Data? The term Linked Data is used to describe a method of exposing, sharing, and connecting data via dereferenceable URIs on the Web.

13. And in English... People, places and concepts are defined by an HTTP address, just link a normal web page http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/about.rdf Rather than Devon, or Devon County, or County of Devon or .....

14. Which means Because everyone uses the same URI, other information can be linked to it. http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/about.rdf

15. RDF <rdf:RDF xmlns:cc=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/ns#&quot; xmlns:dcterms=http://purl.org/dc/terms/ xmlns:foaf=&quot;http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/&quot; xmlns:gn=&quot;http://www.geonames.org/ontology# xmlns:owl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#&quot; xmlns:rdf=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# xmlns:rdfs=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#&quot; xmlns:wgs84_pos=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#&quot;> <gn:Feature rdf:about=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/&quot;> <rdfs:isDefinedBy>http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/about.rdf</rdfs:isDefinedBy> <gn:name>Devon</gn:name> <gn:shortName xml:lang=&quot;en&quot;>Devon</gn:shortName> <gn:officialName>Devon</gn:officialName> <gn:alternateName>Devonshire</gn:alternateName> <gn:featureClass rdf:resource=&quot;http://www.geonames.org/ontology#A&quot;/> <gn:featureCode rdf:resource=&quot;http://www.geonames.org/ontology#A.ADM2&quot;/> <gn:countryCode>GB</gn:countryCode> <gn:population>1122100</gn:population> <wgs84_pos:lat>50.75</wgs84_pos:lat> <wgs84_pos:long>-3.75</wgs84_pos:long> <gn:parentFeature rdf:resource=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/6269131/&quot;/> <gn:parentCountry rdf:resource=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/2635167/&quot;/> <gn:parentADM1 rdf:resource=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/6269131/&quot;/> <gn:childrenFeatures rdf:resource=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/contains.rdf&quot;/> <gn:locationMap rdf:resource=&quot;http://www.geonames.org/2651292/county-of-devon.html&quot;/> <owl:sameAs rdf:resource=&quot;http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/v1/AdministrativeGeography.rdf#devon_18&quot;/> </gn:Feature> <foaf:Document rdf:about=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/about.rdf&quot;> <foaf:primaryTopic rdf:resource=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/&quot;/> <cc:license rdf:resource=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/&quot;/> <cc:attributionURL rdf:resource=&quot;http://sws.geonames.org/2651292/&quot;/> <cc:attributionName rdf:datatype=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string&quot;>GeoNames</cc:attributionName> <dcterms:created rdf:datatype=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date&quot;>2006-01-15</dcterms:created> <dcterms:modified rdf:datatype=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date&quot;>2011-01-06</dcterms:modified> </foaf:Document> </rdf:RDF>

16. Linked Data example IMD Explorer http://dclgexamples.mywebcommunity.org/imd_demo_v7.htm

17. Devon Open Data http://www.indevon.org.uk/opendata/