Orgpedia is an open organizational data project aimed at making government data more accessible and usable by leveraging open web standards and crowdsourcing. The project, which began in April 2013, has a live site integrating various datasets related to regulatory agencies and offers interactive features for public contributions. It addresses the challenges of data collection and access while promoting innovation and collaboration in the data space.

1. ORGpedia
The Open Organizational
Data Project
Prof. Beth Simone Noveck
Joel Gurin, Executive Director
Website: info@3RoundStones.com
@3RoundStones
Main +1-877-290-2127
Direct +1-571-331-3758
ORGpedia site development team:
Luke Ruth, Application Developer
David Wood, CTO
Bernadette Hyland, CEO
Funded by the
Project: Do Tank
http://dotank.nyls.edu
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2. Agenda
• Update on ORGpedia site development
• Project status
• Datasets
• Functionality review
• Review Next steps
• NYU stakeholder review
• Engaging contributors
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3. Problem Statement
• Taxpayers spend billions to have government collect data
• Machine readable content is the new default for
government (OS&T M13-13)
• Yet finding, accessing and combining data is difficult ...
• ORGpedia: the Open Organizational Data Project is
opening new possibilities
• Based entirely on OpenWeb Standards, Open
Source & open government data
• Leverages the crowd for data augmentation
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4. Project Status Highlights
ORGpedia Phase 1 began
15-April 2013
Completed as of 20 June 2013
• Site live (QA)
• Data platform installed on
Rackspace Cloud
• Use case: Combine open
government data from
regulatory agencies for
nuclear plants
• Data sets: EPA Facilities,
EPA Toxic Releases, NRC
Violations, SEC, Open
Street Maps, DBpedia
• User Contributions
• Wikipedia
• Open Corporates
• Visualizations: maps &
charts
• Support for public &
authenticated users thru
Google, Facebook,Yahoo!
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5. ORGpedia Datasets
• U.S. EPA
• Facilities
• Toxic Releases
• US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission
• Violations
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6. ORGpedia is Innovative
• Combines US Government Regulatory data
without the expense, time and high failure rate of
traditional approaches
• Leverages crowdsourcing to fix dirty data and
builds on expert and/or local knowledge
• Open vs. proprietary approach
• Creates opportunity for new businesses &
startups
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7. Technical Innovation
• Linked Data --> Easy combination of datasets
• Leverages an innovative Open Source data
platform (Callimachus)
• Crowdsourced contributions
• Contributions overlay (do not overwrite)
authoritative data
• Web-scale
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9. “Linked Data allows for
cooperation without coordination”
- DavidWood
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10. OpenStack Cloud Services Amazon Web Services
Traditional networks
Persistent URL (PURL)
Services
Linked Data
Services
Mobile Web Print
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11. ORGpedia is Interactive
• The public can view, comment, discuss
• Contributors can:
• overlay controlled fields
• Associate facilities with Linked Open
Data and other Web content (e.g. stock
quotes, images)
• Template-driven approach make extending
the site easy
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12. ORGpedia
User Contributions
Add/modify
• EPA Facility name
• Wikipedia abstract
• Corporate Owner(s)
• Wikipedia abstract
• Open Corporates ID
• Stock ticker
• SEC ID
• Related images
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29. Contribution
history
maintained
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30. ORGpedia Site Summary
• Addresses a compelling problem
• Live site
• Hosted on the cloud
• Driven by Open data
• Government
• Linked Open Data
• Crowdsourced
• Open Source Data platform
• Template driven approach
• Drives hundreds of millions of web pages
Callimachus
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31. Pitching ORGpedia ...
About the project and case studies
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