The document discusses open data and the CKAN open data catalog. It provides an overview of CKAN, including its data model and API. It also discusses open data initiatives like data.gov.uk and how CKAN is used to power open data portals around the world.

1. Open Data & coding data.gov.uk David Read Open Knowledge Foundation [email_address]

2. Contents The context: Linked Open Data

3. Our data catalogue: CKAN

4. data.gov.uk using CKAN

5. Discussion

6. Open Data ”Data is expensive to create” ”But think of the mutual benefits of it being open” Accessible Allowed to use and republish Without restiction

7. Science UEA criticised for a "culture of withholding information." CC-BY-SA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ChrisO

8. Geographic data

9. Public data

10. Linking data Dr. Hans Rosling, Professor of Global Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden (TED talk)

11. Linking data 2

12. Linked data

13. Opening government data Transparency --> effectiveness

14. Labour and Conservatives agree (!) with Cambridge economists: Making government datasets public will bring a £6bn boost to UK economy (We have paid for it...)

15. Open Data and Open Software Zero cost

16. Good performance

17. Principles: Many hands make light work / natural selection / wisdom of crowd / on shoulders of giants

18. Not a proprietry format

19. No supplier lock-in

20. Infrastructure Software Data Licence GPL PDDL, ODbL, ODC-By (OKF 2007-) isitopendata.org (OKF 2009-) Modules/Linking Lib, egg Spreadsheet, database, RDF/OWL Human Discovery CKAN (OKF 2008-) Automatic Distribution Apt-get, CPAN, easy_install CKAN datapkg (OKF 2008-) Hosting Sourceforge, PyPI, bitbucket archive.org / knowledgeforge.net Community freshmeat data.gov.uk email list closest?

21. Open Knowledge Foundation Aim: promote Open Knowledge

22. Founded 2004 as a 'not for profit' organisation

23. Strong connections with Cambridge University

24. A key director: Rufus Pollock

25. Volunteer driven

26. Create software tools (CKAN, KnowledgeForge), organise conferences, licenses, create visuals & mash-ups (Where Does My Money Go, Open Shakespeare), campaigns (Panton Principals)

27. Introducing... CKAN ”Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network” ...well... a fancy Data Catalog

28. ”CKAN is a registry or catalogue system for datasets or other "knowledge" resources. CKAN aims to make it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable.”

32. Dataset name title version url author licence notes extras Tag name Resource url format description hash CKAN data model * * * Group name title description * *

33. Wiki