Slide deck from my March 2016 presentation at Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

1. Open Data 101
How Linux & Open Source Are Enabling Open Data

2. What Is Open Data?
Textbook definition:
Open data is data that can be freely
used, re-used and redistributed by
anyone - subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and sharealike.
http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/

3. Federal Government Definition
High-value information is information that can be used to
increase agency accountability and responsiveness; improve
public knowledge of the agency and its operations; further the
core mission of the agency; create economic opportunity; or
respond to need and demand as identified through public
consultation.

4. Federal Government Standards
Public.
Accessible.
Described.
Reusable.
Complete.
Timely.
Managed Post-Release.

5. Open Data Timeline
1995: First known appearance in print. (scientific agency)
5/2006: CKAN 0.1 released
10/2007: DC launches first govt. Data catalog
12/2007: Open data advocacy meeting in Sebastopol, CA -
30 Internet / Open Source advocates

6. Open Data Timeline Cont.
1/20/2009: President Obama signs the Memorandum on
Transparency and Open Government
2/2009: Tim Berners-Lee TED Talk on need for govt. to
release raw data
5/2009: Data.gov launched
Summer 2009: NY State Senate first government
organization to post government data to GitHub

7. Open Data Timeline Cont.
5/2010: CKAN releases V 1.0 (Python app)
5/2013: President Obama issues Executive Memo requiring
all government data to default to machine readable and open.
Also Project Open Data website is launched.
9/2013: DKAN launched (Drupal)
5/2016: Open Data Act introduced in Congress

8. Open Data Today
3/2016: White House issues draft policy on open source use
by government, puts FY2017 proposed budget on GitHub.
Govt Agencies sponsor hackathons to encourage innovative
use of their data. (Earth Day Hackathon 4/22 at GSA!)
Data.gov has over 194,000 datasets
States / Cities are following, in some cases leading

9. Why is Open Data Important?

11. Transparency

12. Government Ops Innovation

13. Civic Empowerment

14. Economic Development

15. So How Are We Really Doing?

16. Dashboards
Federal: https://labs.data.gov/dashboard/offices/2015-11-30
States: https://census.usopendata.org/
New York City: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dashboard

17. Examples
Don’t Eat At
Fix My Street
AirNow
Bank Local
College Scorecard
Leafsnap

18. Resources
Open Data Handbook
Data.gov
CKAN
DKAN
Open Data Inception
CartodB