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EDF2012 Nigel Shadbolt - Transparency and Open Data
1. Transparency and Open Data:
Why Bother?
Being also a discourse on some lessons learnt
Professor Nigel Shadbolt FREng
7th June 2012
European Data Forum, Copenhagen
Nigel Shadbolt
6. leading to…
• Improved transparency &
accountability
• Better Public Services
• Participation… people enhance,
improve, capture the data
• Improved efficiency
• Creation of social value
• Economic value, innovation and
growth
8. “Our ambition is to “We are determined to go further in breaking
become the world leader down the walled garden of government,
in open data, and using technology and information to provide
accelerate the greater transparency…”
accountability revolution
that the internet age has
made possible..
“My aim is clear: to make
the provision of data (with
“Greater transparency across reasonable formats and
Government is at the heart of our licenses) a routine task of
shared commitment to enable the public administrations.”
public to hold politicians and public
bodies to account
13. It is about changing behaviour
UK Public Data
Principles
14. However…
★ Put your data on the Web with an Open Licence
★★ Make it available as structured data
★★★ Use open, standard formats
★★★★ Use URIs to identify things
★★★★★ Link your data to other people’s data
15. Create, Use and Share URIs
• National digital
infrastructure being built
• URIs for schools, roads,
bus stops, post codes,
admin boundaries...
• Some of the data links
across and connects
other data together
• Key data link points exist
16. Create, Use and Share URIs
• National digital
infrastructure being built
• URIs for schools, roads,
bus stops, post codes,
admin boundaries...
• Some of the data links
across and connects
other data together
• Key data link points exist
17. Create, Use and Share URIs
• Schools
• Post-codes
• Government posts
• Ministers
• Bus stops
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27. UK Reported Crime Data
• A tough data set to
release
• All reported crime each
month
• By crime type
• At the street level
• Police now use the
apps themselves
34. Research &
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• The Network Effect Cluster
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• for data, people and organisations
• A Focal Point
• coordinate, convene, link and
integrate
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• The Power of Open
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Standards, Data, Licences, SW
• Open Data as a Platform for
Interna onall
Agenciess
• Government Cluster
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• Business
• Research
35. “The vision is to establish the Open Data Institute as a world leading
centre to innovate, exploit and research the opportunities for the UK
created by the Government’s Open Data policy.”
• Business Innovation
• Public Sector Innovation
• Training the Open Data Generation
• Developing and Researching Open Data
• Developing Open Data Standards and Policies
• Advisor to Government & International Collaboration
36. OGD 2.0
• We haven’t worked out
how to close the
feedback loops
• Publish out
• Acquire or Enhance
• Write Back
47. A sample of “data hugging” excuses
• It’s held separately by n different organisations, and we can’t join it up
• It will make people angry and scared without helping them
• It is technically impossible
• We do not own the data
• The data is just too large to be published and used
• Our website cannot hold files this large
• We know the data is wrong
• We know the data is wrong, and people will tell us where it is wrong
• We know the data is wrong, and we will waste valuable resources inputting the corrections people
send us
• People will draw superficial conclusions from the data without understanding the wider picture
• People will construct league tables from it
• It will generate more Freedom of Information requests
• It might be combined with other data to identify individuals/sensitive information
• It will cost too much to put it into a standard format
• Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc extract
48. A sample of “data hugging” excuses
• It’s held separately by n different organisations, and we can’t join it up
• It will make people angry and scared without helping them
• It is technically impossible
• We do not own the data
• • All these sometimes have some truth in them
The data is just too large to be published and used
• • website they rationalise
OurOftencannot hold files this large the official fear of the unknown
• • know the data is wrong
We Data owners need to be helped through
• • know the data & precedent are your it is wrong
We Example is wrong, and people will tell us wherefriends
• • know first is wrong, and we will waste valuable resources not licence
We For the dataphase, compromise on data inputting the corrections people
send us
• People will draw superficial conclusions from the data without understanding the wider picture
• People will construct league tables from it
• It will generate more Freedom of Information requests
• It might be combined with other data to identify individuals/sensitive information
• It will cost too much to put it into a standard format
• Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc extract
52. Open Data and the Power of Open
never one driver nor one reason
•Open Licences
•Open Standards
•Open Data
•Open Data Principles
•Open Participation
•Open Minds
Notas del editor
From Data to Decisions: The Power of Information in the Age of the Web of Data This talk will review the technology and trends that underpin our ability to derive intelligence from the data deluge we all face. It will consider how a systems approach to the Web, its technical and social components, can help. The role of open data, crowd sourcing and distributed problem solving will be discussed as they relate to your organization.
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Tom, Gavin and Dan made a paper. A paper where all of the content relates to your postcode. It tells you all about the local area centered around you and would make a lovely welcome greeting to any new arrival. It is a cornucopia of data from allotment waiting time to the time taken to travel to central London to information on local NHS and refuse/recycling centers.