Introduction to Open Data and related concepts. Presented on Free Software Day in Barcelona, on 2014-09-20.

1. Open Data
a view from the trenches
javier.rodriguez@urbanstep.com

2. Tim Waters

3. Tim Waters

4. Tim Waters

5. Government
Open Data
Raw
Linked
Big
Journalism

6. Open Data

7. Open Definition

8. Open Definition .org

9. “Open data can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone
for any purpose”
–Open Definition
Open Knowledge

10. Data that is Open

11. https://data.cityofchicago.org/

16. http://maps.met.police.uk/

17. http://data.police.uk

19. Open Data promotes
Transparency

22. Open Data is good PR

24. http://dadesobertes.gencat.cat/

25. http://opendata.bcn.cat/

27. http://www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/cordobalocal/nace-plataforma-open-data-cordoba-para-buscar-empleo-o-crear-empresas_625578.html

28. http://www.opendatacordoba.com/

30. Open Data should promote
Accountability

32. http://civio.es/

33. http://DondeVanMisImpuestos.es/

34. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/dec/04/government-spending-department-2011-12

35. Data Journalism

36. http://www.theguardian.com/data

37. Open Government

38. Data + Participation

40. Raw Data

41. “We’ll release the data
once we’ve made sure
that it is of sufficient quality.”
–Every public administration ever

42. Just give us the Data already

43. “But it is Too Much Data”
–Those same public administrations

44. Big Data

46. gartner.com

48. Linked Data

49. “When you connect data together, you get power in a way that
doesn't happen just with the web, with documents.”
-Tim Berners-Lee
The Next Web
TED 2009

50. Serendipity

51. Linking Open Data, 2007

52. Linking Open Data, 2001

53. Semantic Web

54. RDF

55. Resource Description Framework

56. Object
!
!
Attribute = Value

57. ERD
Object Object

58. RDF
Subject Predicate Object

59. RDF
Subject Predicate Object
They are all URIs!

60. SPARQL

61. SPARQL Example
PREFIX dbo: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
!
SELECT ?name ?birth ?death ?person WHERE {
?person dbo:birthPlace :Barcelona .
?person dbo:birthDate ?birth .
?person foaf:name ?name .
?person dbo:deathDate ?death .
FILTER (?birth < "1900-01-01"^^xsd:date) .
}
ORDER BY ?name
Go!

62. SPARQL Example
PREFIX dbo: <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/>
!
SELECT ?name ?birth ?description ?person WHERE {
?person dbo:birthPlace :Barcelona .
?person <http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject> <http://
dbpedia.org/resource/Category:Spanish_composers> .
?person dbo:birthDate ?birth .
?person foaf:name ?name .
?person rdfs:comment ?description .
FILTER (LANG(?description) = 'en') .
}
ORDER BY ?name
Go!

63. Get Yer Open Data

64. Private Sector

65. • Google Public Data Explorer
http://www.google.com/publicdata/
• Amazon Web Services Public Data Sets
http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
• Socrata
http://opendata.socrata.com/

66. http://www.google.com/publicdata/

67. https://aws.amazon.com/datasets

68. Public Sector

69. • http://data.gov
• http://data.gov.uk
• http://datos.gob.es/
• http://opendata.euskadi.net
• http://dadesobertes.gencat.cat
• http://w20.bcn.cat/opendata

70. http://datos.gob.es/sites/default/files/infomeopendatasmartcities.pdf

71. Do It Yourself

72. Evan Amos

74. https://morph.io

75. State of the Data

76. http://www.opendataresearch.org/barometer

77. Dave Tarrant / Open Data Institute https://theodi.github.io/open-data-barometer-viz/

78. http://CatalunyaDades.cat/

79. http://AbreDatos.es/

80. Use the Data, Luke

89. Challenges

90. More Data

91. Better Data

92. Relevant Data

93. Fresh Data

94. Known-Good Formats,
s'il vous plaît

95. Privacy

96. Licences

97. Where to now?

98. Open your Data

99. http://OpenDataHandbook.org/

100. “This handbook discusses the legal, social and technical aspects
of open data. It can be used by anyone but is
especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It
discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to
go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.”
–Open Data Handbook Documentation, Release 1.0.0
Page 1

101. http://catalunyadades.cat/?iniciatives_agenda=guia-de-dades-obertes-per-administracions-locals

102. Link your Data

103. Thank you

104. @codehead
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