This document discusses open data initiatives in Amsterdam. It notes that while public sector staff recognize the importance of open data, many are unsure how to use it. Releasing open data presents both opportunities and challenges for local governments. Amsterdam has developed a strong open data ecosystem through partnerships between businesses, hackers, coders, and EU projects. Examples of successful open data apps from the Rijksmuseum API show the educational and economic impacts open data can provide. The document calls for empowering open data agents, improving communication between policymakers and open data groups, producing more user cases, and moving toward open data commons.

1. Open Data Endeavors in
Amsterdam
Open Data Days,19 th Febr 2014, Ghent
Katalin Gallyas
Open Innovation Policy
Advisor
@KatalinG

2. Open Data. Why?
Public sector staff recognize the importance of open
data, but many are unsure how to use it. (Guardian Research,
June 2013)

3. Open Data Controversial for Local Governments
Open Data chances are unrevealed
for governments.
Open Data Interpretation Illiteracy
but curiosity (something big,
exciting with Open Data is coming)
Who to choose? What to choose?
-Linked Data
-Data Visualization
-Data Mining are unexploited
Loc Gov need a helping hand and
collaboration on Open Data

4. Vendor Fusion

5. Vocabularies Policy Makers
“What is the evidence that
we should release
datasets?”
“How many start ups have
been created since we
launched the first datasets”
“Can Open Data repair a
market failure, inefficiency?”

6. Current open data catalysts (non-proprietary*)

7. Current open data catalysts (proprietary*)

8. Quest for Open Data Impact, Evidences

9. Precarious Open Data Policies
• Opening, exchanging data between departments of
the city hall
• External: hackathons
still missing in Open Data scenario’s
-Big Data Strategy
-Meaning behind data (visualization, mining)
Connected
-Interoperability of open data based apps
24 hours
-Civic App Store

10. Injecting Open Data best
practices through EU projects to
cities

11. 1. EU Open Data Fuel Project: Code for EuropeWORKING WITH CODERS

12. Code for Europe: Civic Apps & Commons

13. The Future - Commons

14. 2. EU project: Open Cities

15. Amsterdam – Strong Open Data Ecosystem partners
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Strong SME’s, hackers’, coders
Business Accelerators
Innovation Intermediaries >>
EU Projects
Open minded Local Gov
Participatory citizens

16. Best Practices Open Data
• 30 apps have been launched
(face recognition by portrays)
• High educational impact
• Positive PR for the museum
• Reach of new younger
target group
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api -110.000 high resolution
photo’s of the collection

17. Rijksmuseum API

18. Community: Appsterdam2600 developers have joined
up

19. Open Data Observations
1. Open Data Catalysts are strongly dependent on
external financing and networking - Liberate open data
agents!
2. Vocabularies match between policy makers and open
data catalyst
3. Produce user cases to discover the enormous
underexploited value of data
4. Watch out with corporate Big Data providers
5. Encourage cities to move toward Commons, peer
reviewed open data vendors

20. Memories. 2011

21. Thank you!
Katalin Gallyas
gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl
@katalinG