1. Open Data
Highs, Lows and Big Unknowns
Tom Heath
Head of Research
Open Data Institute
@tommyh

2. My Open Data Story

3. A Developmental Perspective

4. The (Increasing) Highs

6. Launched March 2006 – http://freeourdata.org.uk/

7. Launched October 2007 – http://data.dc.gov/

8. source: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/05/mps-expenses-houseofcommons

9. Launched May 2009 – http://data.gov/

10. Appointed June 2009
Image by Elon University, CC-BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/elonuniversity/4560487761/

11. In Beta September 2009 – http://data.gov.uk/

12. Launched April 2010 – (at big long url...)

13. Launched September 2010 – (another long url)

14. Published November 2011

15. Published June 2012

16. Launched in Beta September 2012 – http://data.gov.in/

17. Official Launch December 2012 – http://theodi.org/

18. Made? Signed? Ordered? May 2013

19. Signed June 2013

20. Signed June 2013

21. Released October 2013 – https://index.okfn.org/

22. Released October 2013 – http://opendatabarometer.org/

24. What did we get right?
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Strong grassroots campaigns
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Top-level (cross-party) political support
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Appealing to multiple (different) priorities

25. The Lows

26. by Freefoto, CC-BY-NC

28. Big Unknowns

29. will “open wash” lead to “peak open”?

30. Image by Olga Tarkovskiy, CC-BY-SA 3.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png

31. Image by Ulrich Atz, CC-BY-SA 3.0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elonuniversity/4560487761/

32. a “personal data chernobyl”
“care.data”

33. indifference, losing momentum
→ the evidence base
mailto:tom.heath@theodi.org
→ commercial uptake
→ ongoing government commitments

34. data quality, provenance, versioning, description

35. web-scale discovery and reuse (inc. licensing!)

36. http://data.dc.gov

37. So what can you do?

38. How are you using open data?
And what have you learned?

39. Questions?

40. Acknowledgements
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Fred Saunderson and Max Heimstädt
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Tim Davies
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UK Open Data Timeline
Open Data Timeline
Ulrich Atz
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“Big, Open and Personal” Venn diagram