1. OPEN DATA: OPEN YOUR MIND
Sally Jenkinson, From the Front, 17.09.2015
@sjenkinson | sally@recordssoundthesame.com

2. sally@recordssoundthesame.com | @sjenkinson
Digital solutions architect & consultant
Records Sound the Same Ltd
Sally Jenkinson

3. @sjenkinson
WHAT IS DATA?

4. data(ˈdeɪtə ; ˈdɑːtə)
Plural noun
• A series of observations, measurements, or facts; information
• Also called: information (computing) the information operated on
by a computer program
Although now often used as a singular noun, data is properly a plural.
From Latin, literally: (things) given, from dare to give
collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/data

5. data
data
content content
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6. EXPOSE
INGEST
INSPIRE CONTENT
COLLECT

8. “Big data”
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9. I ♡ DATA

10. @sjenkinson

13. sallyjenkinson.co.uk/labs/teatracker

16. developer.marvel.com/terms

17. DATA SHARING

18. Open data = freedom

19. WHAT IS OPEN DATA?

21. Re-publish
Derive new content or data
Make money by selling products
Charge a fee for access

22. Make money by selling products
Charge a fee for access

23. Consumption & publication
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27. ♥
github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

29. Licensing

30. theodi.org/guides/publishers-guide-open-data-licensing | theodi.org/guides/reusers-guide-open-data-licensing
OPEN LICENCES FOR CREATIVE CONTENT
Public domain (CC0)
Attribution (CC-by)
Attribution & share-alike (CC-by-sa)

31. theodi.org/guides/publishers-guide-open-data-licensing | theodi.org/guides/reusers-guide-open-data-licensing
OPEN LICENCES FOR DATABASES
Public domain (PDDL)
Attribution (ODC-by)
Attribution & share-alike (ODbL)

32. theodi.org/guides/publishers-guide-open-data-licensing | theodi.org/guides/reusers-guide-open-data-licensing
OTHERS
Open Government Licence
OS Open Licence

33. THE BENEFITS OF OPEN DATA

34. Generating value & making
savings
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35. +$3 trillion / year
mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/open_data_unlocking_innovation_and_performance_with_liquid_information
open data

36. Transparency
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37. “…within two years chemical
emissions nationwide (at least
as reported, and presumably
also in fact) had decreased by
40 percent.
!
Some companies were
launching policies to bring
their emissions down by 90
percent, just because of the
release of previously
sequestered information.”
maban.co.uk/80

38. Improved efficiency
Improved effectiveness
Impact measurement
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39. Participation & self-
empowerment
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40. Improved or new private
products or services &
innovation
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41. New knowledge from
combined data sources and
patterns in large data
volumes
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42. LINKED DATA
linkeddata.org

46. WE ARE HUMANS

47. “a formal specification of a
shared conceptualisation”
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48. “Start to explain the data in
understandable terms, and to
illustrate some of the
relationships, in ways normal
people can understand”
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49. bbc.co.uk/ontologies

50. bbc.co.uk/things

51. DATA & USER EXPERIENCES

52. !
“How far do you live from your workplace? Chances are, you'd answer that
question in minutes rather than miles. An hour on the bus tells us a lot
more than 47 miles. That's why we made Mapumental.
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Given any start point or destination, it'll show everywhere within the chosen
commute time, by public transport.”
mapumental.com/services/travel-time

53. “How accessible is your nearest school,
post office, or GP’s surgery?
!
In Wales, that’s not always a simple
question: the country’s mountainous
landscapes, rural populations, and
sometimes infrequent bus services can
mean that those without cars are rather
cut off from public service provision.”
mapumental.com/services/accessibility

54. “Just how quickly could fire engines
reach a given postcode in case of a
fire? It’s a question that’s pivotal to
decisions made by both the emergency
services and the insurance industry.”
mysociety.org/2013/04/22/fire-fire-mapumental-and-fire-engine-journey-times

55. CHALLENGES & LIMITATIONS

56. PRACTICAL
TECHNICAL
SOCIAL
LEGAL
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57. Accuracy

58. Cost

59. Data privacy &
the individual

60. Discoverability

61. Combining data sets & licences
clipol.org/tools/compatibility

62. Misinterpretation &
misrepresentation

64. WORKING WITH OPEN DATA

65. Consuming open data
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67. d3js.org

68. NOT JUST DIGITAL!

69. opensensors.io

70. DOUG MCCUNE
dougmccune.com

75. STEFANIE POSAVEC
stefanieposavec.co.uk

76. “Air Transformed is a series of wearable
data objects that communicate this
physical burden in different ways.
Though seemingly decorative, they are
based entirely on open air quality data
from Sheffield, UK, a former steelmaking
city and notorious for its bad air.”
stefanieposavec.co.uk/data/#/airtransformed

80. Publishing open data
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81. Clear licensing & usage information
A plan for support
Structure & quality
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82. 1. Identification & planning
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83. 2. Extracting & cleaning
openrefine.org | clean-sheet.org

84. 3. Sharing
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85. FIVE STAR DATA
5stardata.info

86. ★
Make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format)
under an open license.
★★
Make it available as structured data
(e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table).
★★★ Use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel).
★★★★
Use URIs to denote things, so that people can point at
your stuff.
★★★★★ Link your data to other data to provide context.

87. OPEN DATA CERTIFICATES
certificates.theodi.org

88. AND IN THE END…

90. @sjenkinson
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sally@recordssoundthesame.com
recordssoundthesame.com
THANK YOU.
Thank you to these lovely people for making
their content open under a Creative Commons or
public domain licence:
Linking Open Data cloud diagram 2014, by Max Schmachtenberg,
Christian Bizer, Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak - lod-cloud.net
DougMcCune - dougmccune.com
stefanieposavec.co.uk
flickr.com/photos/rachubarama/2709346242
imgur.com/47D7zGqxkcd.com/1138
flickr.com/photos/troymars/9113025616
The Roof of Wales - flickr.com/photos/stray_croc/4743302841
Fire Wall - flickr.com/photos/epleitez/1714341218
Money - flickr.com/photos/mikephotoart/12839909303
cc - flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/7175627336
RDF - flickr.com/photos/gertcha/8292978031