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knowledge work, learning, social media
Socially Open Data
icw Technically Open / Legally
Open
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Social is the ‘complexity’ bit
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No familiar organizational structure
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Costs too much; Whatʼs the business case; Has commercial value; Possible
privacy issues; Confidential info; Itʼs not ours, and we donʼt know who owns it;
Itʼs not ours and supplier wonʼt allow it; The quality isnʼt very good; We donʼt
know where it is; Not our job; Itʼs in a useless format anyway; I donʼt have the
authority; People will misuse the data; People will use it wrongly; Only we
understand our data; Weʼll get sued; Files are just too big; Too little bandwith;
It starts with this, but whereʼs the end? Itʼs there, but canʼt be opened; Data is
Networked life, networked
dated/too old; Itʼs not in digital format; Is this even legal?; Our Minister says no;
We never have done this before, why start now?; I donʼt see the use; Nobody will
be interested; No time; No resources; Just do FOIA requests; Weʼll publish it
work, networked learning
redacted; Itʼs not complete; It contains errors; Itʼs commercially sensitive;
Combining this with other data is dangerous; People will come to wrong
conclusions; People will get lost and confused; It will trigger endless discussions;
We canʼt confirm or deny we have that data; Weʼll get feedback, and canʼt handle
that; Our IT supplier says itʼs not possible; Our IT supplier will charge too much;
Our site will crash; Itʼs already online! (but in unfindable PDFs); If people
download it and use it later it will be outdated; I canʼt take responsibility for all the
reuse; People will get angry; Our data is in contradiction to the data of the
department that is in charge of the topic; Only we truly understand.....statistics/
meteo/geo/laws); Weʼll disrupt the market; It will only be used to attack us.
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Socially open = just add context
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Some simple starting points?
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Add contextual info as metadata:
Contact person
Feedback address
What was it used for and how?
When generated and when?
next update?
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Make stuff findable:
Pointers
Do PR for your data
Announce in relevant
environments
Add to data.yourgov.yourtld
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Solve ‘issues’ by adding social context:
Talk to re-users / name them
Talk to those the data
describes / name them
Make release process
transparent
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This is where the mindset change takes hold
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Credits
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