The document discusses the importance of open data and knowledge sharing in driving innovation, emphasizing collaboration among various communities and sectors. It outlines strategies for creating a robust data ecosystem and highlights the role of platforms like data.gov in promoting transparency and enabling the development of new applications. Additionally, it mentions specific initiatives related to energy data and global cooperation in the open data movement.

1. Driving Innovation with
Open Data and Knowledge Sharing
Jeanne Holm
Evangelist, Data.gov
August 25, 2012

2. Change is Happening…
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3. What Will You Do?
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4. People
People  Knowledge  Problems
The Times They Are A’Changing
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5. Generations Share
Differently
• 1930-50’s era generation
– Focus on society
– Friendships are forged through adversity
• 1960-70’s era generation
– Focus on community
– Friendships forged through identification with a cause
• 1980-90’s era generation
– Focus on the individual
– Friendships forged through individual goal accomplishment
• 2000’s era generation
– Focus on common interests
– Friendships are created or thrive virtually…
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6. Trust and Reciprocity
• Trust can be built on
• Personal experience
• “I know you”
• Shared experience
• “We both worked on the
same project”
• Transfer of trust
• “We know the same person
who trusts us”
• Shared values
• “We agree to operate by the
same rules”
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7. The Learning Journey
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9. Communities for Collaboration
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10. Finding NASA Experts
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11. Defining the Competitive Edge
• Historically, innovation and breakthrough ideas and
technologies occur at the edges and boundaries of
networks
• Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions describes such radical innovation as a
paradigm shift
– Astronomy: Ptolemy to Copernicus
– Biology: Creation to Darwinian evolution
– Politics: English monarchy to Magna Carta
• Where will your innovation occur?
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24. Our Modes of Communication
Keep Changing
• YouTube is now second largest
search engine in the world
• 1.5 million pieces of content
shared daily on Facebook
• 250 million visitors each month
to YouTube and Facebook
• Mobile devices will be world’s
primary connection tool to the
Internet in 2020
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25. Open Government Initiative
• Transparency promotes
accountability
• Participation allows
people to contribute ideas
• Collaboration encourages
cooperation within
government and with
industry
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26. Creating a Data Ecosystem
1. Gather data
– from many places and give it freely to
developers, scientists, and citizens
2. Connect the community
– in finding solutions to allow collaboration
through social media, events, platforms
3. Provide an infrastructure
– built on standards
4. Encourage technology developers
– to create apps, maps, and visualizations
of data that empower people’s choices
“A Strategy for American
5. Gather more data Innovation” published
– and connect more people September 2009
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27. Data.gov
• Provides instant access
to over 450,000
datasets in easy to use
formats
• Contributions from
UN, World Bank, and
172 agencies
• Encourage
development of
innovative applications
• Drive innovation and
knowledge use across
the globe
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28. Easy to Find Data
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29. The Power of Visualizations
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30. Powered Through Advanced
Technologies
• Provides developers the tools and
raw data formats to develop new
capabilities
• Partnership with W3C (eGov
Interest Group) and with RPI for
research in semantic web
• Connected to other open data
efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud
• Open source platform
• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
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31. Learn at Data.gov
• Resources for students
and teachers
• Examples of how data is
being used to develop
apps
• Lesson plans and videos
• Showcase your science
fair project that uses
government data!
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32. Open Data for the Economy
• When the Department of
Defense released satellite
data…private industry created
affordable GPS devices
• Data from NOAA (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) helped build
weather-related business
• Opportunities for private sector
are limitless
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33. Supporting Global Events
Japanese
tsunami, earthquake, and
radiation monitoring
Restore the Gulf:
Deepwater Horizon
Response
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34. Open Communities
Community
Developers ✓
Open Data ✓
Semantic Web ✓
Health ✓
Law ✓
Energy ✓
Education ✓
Ocean ✓
Safety ✓
Manufacturing ✓
Business ✓
Ethics ✓
Consumer
Research and Development
Human rights
+ many more…
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35. Energy Drives Innovation
• Energy.Data.gov
connects
innovators, indust
ry, academia, and
government at
federal, state, an
d local levels
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36. Challenges Spark Ideas
• Energy.Data.gov
works with
groups and
challenges across
the nation to
innovate around
federal data
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37. Data Drives Decisions
• Apps transform data
in understandable
ways to help people
make decisions
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38. Green Button
• Anyone can download their
home or business energy use
data from their local utility
• Then use apps to manage their
energy use to save money and
go green
• More at Energy.Data.gov
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39. Powered Through Advanced
Technologies
• Provides developers tools and raw
data formats to develop new
capabilities
• Partnership with
– W3C: eGov Interest Group + activities,
standards, and recommendations
– RPI for research in semantic web and
open linked data
• Connected to other open data
efforts across the world
• Data hosted in the cloud
• Open source platform
• Builds on ontologies developed in
specific areas
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40. Data.gov Capabilities
• Present • Future
– Dataset Management – OGPL
• Workflow engine and • Open source platform
metadata editor built on Drupal +
• Extended Dublin Core – API key registry
– Search • API key authorization
• Keyword and filtering by • Templates and standards
basic metadata facets • Application statistics
• 6.7 billion triples
– Enhanced search
– Geo • Federated catalogs
• Search, harvesting, and map
across agencies, cities,
visualizations via
regions, and topics
www.geoplatform.gov
– Vocab.Data.gov – Vocab.Data.gov
• Vocabulary and schema • Federated ontologies
publishing engine for linked • URIs for all data
data – Standards driven
• URIs for all health data • ADMS-based metadata
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41. US Open Government Action Plan
• On 20 September 2011, President
Obama announced at the UN
General Assembly…
• Contribute Data.gov as a platform
– India and the U.S. creating open source
platform
– Will allow any country to create open data
site
• Foster communities on Data.gov
– Health, energy, and law plus new
communities in education, research and
development, and public safety
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42. Open Government Platform (OGPL)
• Open source solution co-developed by
Governments of India and US
– National Informatics Centre and US Data.gov
• US Data.gov will migrate to OGPL later in
2012
• Coordinating with other open data
providers, platforms, and communities, like
W3C, World Bank, CKAN, and open source
developers world wide
• Public commits and bug tracker on Github
• Public mailing list for discussion
• Join the community!
– Source code on Github
– https://github.com/opengovtplatform
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43. The Path Ahead
• Bring data up and out of government to the public ★
• Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★
• Create communities to understand and apply data
• Connect and collaborate with small businesses,
industry, and academia to drive innovation
• Continue to develop OGPL with community
development
• Share with others to understand global issues
We need to securely architect our systems
for interoperability and openness from conception.
—Digital Government
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44. Open Data at Cities, Counties,
and States
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45. A Global
Movement Has
Begun to Provide
Transparency and
Democratization
of Data
Don’t see your site?
Update via @usdatagov
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46. Let’s work together to set the
data free!
www.Data.Gov
@usdatagov
jholm@jpl.nasa.gov
@JeanneHolm
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