The document discusses open data communities and tools that enable them. It describes OpenSpending, an open data platform that brings together scientists, librarians, and others to work with government financial data. The platform aims to make data open and reusable through components like a data store, ETL patterns for data extraction and transformation, and tools for visualization, discussion, and reporting.

1. Open
Communities
for Open Data
Friedrich Lindenberg, OKFN

2. How
make ‘open’
can we
work?

3. Promote
Re-Use

4. “The best thing
to do with your
data will be

5. Tools &
Communities

6. Tools enable
Communities

7. what is

8. opendefinition.org
opendefinition.org

10. A platform
for Government

13. A platform
for data workers

14. Weave it

15. Componen

18. Scientists,
Librarians,
Linked Data
Makers,
Spending
Mappers, ....

21. priorities for
policies

22. common
evidence of
government

25. Government Finance Project
Stages * * no scientific basis
hard boring juicy
storage visualizatio
research aggregatio n
scraping n explanation
extraction discussion
transform reporting

26. granular - modular -
integrable
OSM for money
Cartographers servers
Tile

27. What is OpenSpending?
Data Store
ETL Patterns* Navigation*
Platform
Cube & Data API Candy Jar*
* heavy WIP. Help!