The document discusses open data and its benefits. It provides examples of how open data has helped increase gold production and prevent accidents. Open data refers to data that is publicly available, accessible, and free to use. When data is openly available it can be used by many to make new discoveries and innovations. The document argues that data should be open when it is factual information, concerns public works, or was created using public funds. Linked open data connects related data on the semantic web to lower barriers between datasets. Examples of open data projects mentioned are DBpedia, OpenStreetMap, and GeoNames. Ensuring data is truly open involves using public domain or Creative Commons licenses.

1. Open Data - a goldmine1Open Data – a goldminePhoto by BullionVault @ Flickr, CC BY-ND

2. the speakerSvein-Magnus SørensenMaster of Science in Communications Technology from NTNU

3. Graduate from the Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship (Gründerskolen)Past experience include:Knowledge engineer at Computas AS (Oslo, Norway)Integration engineer at Searchforce Inc. (San Mateo, California)Currently: Business Analyst at Objectware ASWeblog: http://blog.menneske.org

4. Twitter: http://twitter.com/sveinmagnus

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6. 3Open Data - a goldmineCONTENTMATTERS

7. Whyisn’t it enough?Open source doesn’t require open formats

8. Open source only covers the software

9. Data often lasts longer than software

10. Data is more valuable when accessible

11. Any code will be acceptable, any data won’t4Open Data - a goldmineGraphic by OpenSourceInitiative, CC BY

12. Open data – real goldCanadian GoldCorp Inc. was near collapse in the late 90’ies.It’s Red Lake mine showed reduced output after 50 years of production Then something previously unheard of happened: Inspired by the crowd-sourcing of Linux and Open Source, Rob McEwen announced The GoldCorp Challenge: a competition to find new gold in the mine. The full geological dataset from Red Lake was made available to contestants.5Open Data - a goldminePhoto by Rickz @ Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

13. 6Open Data - a goldmineAnd the result?110 new targets were suggested by contestants from around the world.

14. 80% of the targets submitted yielded substantial quantities of new gold

15. GoldCorp got first look a wealth of new technologies for mine analysis

16. Production at Red Lake increased tenfold while mining costs dropped to 1/6th of their previous levels.Photo by BullionVault @ Flickr, CC BY-ND

17. What is Open Data? Open Knowledge Definition(http://www.opendefinition.org/)Open data/content/information must: Be Available and Accessible at Reproduction Cost “As a Whole” Permit Free Redistribution Permit Reuse Under Same Terms Be Absent of Technological Restrictions Be Attributed as Required Keep Source Integrity Not Discriminate Access From Persons or Groups Not Discriminate Against Fields of Endeavor Be Distributed with only the Original License Must Not Be Licensed Specific to a Package Must Not by License Restrict the Distribution of Other Works7Open Data - a goldmineGraphic by ronin691 @ Flickr, CC BY-SA

18. Whyshouldwecreate open data?Restrictions on data re-use can create an anti-commons and its related tragedy.8Open Data - a goldminePhoto by robokow Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

19. Whyshouldwecreate open data?Sponsors may not get full value of research unless the results are made freely available.

20. The rate of discovery often accelerates with better access to data.9Open Data - a goldminePhoto by Victor.Correa Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

21. Whyshouldwecreate open data?Data access is often required for the operation of communal human activities.10Open Data - a goldminePhoto by coreytempleton Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

22. Whyshouldwecreateopen data?11Open Data - a goldmineThis presentation would have been really boring without the fully and partially open data available from Wikipedia, Flickr and the open data projects online!

23. 12Open Data - a goldmineIfyou love something…Set it free!Photo by keltanen @ Flickr, CC BY-NC