The document discusses the benefits of decentralizing open data if government funding stops. Decentralization would allow open data to persist across multiple catalogue instances with different owners like government and non-profits, creating a more stable open data ecosystem compared to a single centralized system. The CKAN open data software enables setting up decentralized catalogues.

1. Open Data
Decentralization
just in case there will be no funding
Stefan Urbanek
stefan.urbanek@gmail.com April 2011
@Stiivi

2. funding

3. no funding
no data

4. decentralization
with CKAN - the Data Hub Software
http://ckan.org/

5. multiple open-data
catalogue instances

6. multiple owners

7. government
authoritative

8. with curated
aggregations
this much is data.gov

9. funding stops
this much was data.gov

10. data persists, another
will take gov’s place

11. Decentralisation:
more stable open data
ecosystem

12. http://ckan.org/