Many of Open Knowledge International’s projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, CKAN, is used by many of the world’s governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess. CKAN is a tool for making open data websites. (Think of a content management system like WordPress – but for data, instead of pages and blog posts.) It helps you manage and publish collections of data. It is used by national and local governments, research institutions, and other organizations who collect a lot of data. In this talk I’ll go over some use-cases of Open Knowledge Platform implementations by the Portuguese Government, the architectural features, the difficulties and different approaches to solve them.

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3. Open Knowledge Platform
Pedro Sousa, Azure MVP
July 2018

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5. Agenda
Open Knowledge
Platform
Open Government and
Public Information
Difficulties
Use Cases

6. 3 Laws of Open Data
David Eaves, Harvard Kennedy School (https://eaves.ca)
1. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist
2. If it isn’t available in open and machine readable format, it can’t engage
3. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower

7. Open Knowledge Platform
Open Knowledge International (OKI) is a global non-profit network that promotes
and shares information at no charge, including both content and data.
Aims
The aims of Open Knowledge International are:
• Promoting the idea of open knowledge, both what it is, and why is it a good idea.
• Running open knowledge events, such as OKCon.
• Working on open knowledge projects, such as Open Economics or Open
Shakespeare.
• Providing infrastructure, and potentially a home, for open knowledge projects,
communities and resources. For example, the KnowledgeForge service and CKAN.
• Acting at UK, European and international levels on open knowledge issues.
https://okfn.org/

8. The Open Definition
http://opendefinition.org/
The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content.
It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open content” and thereby
ensures quality and encourages compatibility between different pools of open material.
It can be summed up in the statement that:
“Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and
share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements
that preserve provenance and openness).”

9. Global Open Data Index
https://index.okfn.org/
The Global Open Data Index is a civil society collaborative effort to track the state of open
government data around the world. The survey is designed to assess the openness of
specific government datasets according to the Open Definition. Through this initiative we
want to provide a civil society audit of how governments actually publish data with input
and review from citizens and organizations

10. CKAN – Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network
https://ckan.org/
The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) is a fully-featured,
mature, open source data management solution. CKAN provides a
streamlined way to make your data discoverable and presentable. Each
dataset is given its own page with a rich collection of metadata, making it a
valuable and easily searchable resource.

11. Open Government Partnership
https://www.opengovpartnership.org/participants

12. Open Government and public information
https://dados.gov.pt/pt/ (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa)
Conjuntos de dados (datasets): 1693 (2018/07/21)
Reutilizações (reuses): 4
Organizações (orgs): 60 “A definição inicial de Open Government, ou “Governo Aberto”, é a de
um Governo cujas principais características são, segundo a OCDE a
transparência, a participação e a colaboração.”
Building an open and innovative Government for better policies and service delivery.” Paris: OECD, 8-9 June 2010

14. Difficulties
difficulty
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16. SNS – National Health Services
https://www.sns.gov.pt/transparencia

17. CMP – Porto Municipality
http://dadosabertos.cm-porto.pt/

18. Portuguese Ministry of Justice

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