This document discusses the benefits of opening cultural data. It notes that public money should yield public data, and that opening data allows for transparency, collaboration, combining of data, learning new things, and innovation. Several examples are provided of apps and tools created by combining open cultural and other types of data, such as environmental and transportation apps. Benefits include creating recommendations and predicting train occupancy. The document promotes opening cultural data to enable new insights and applications.

1. Waarom zou je
je culturele data
openen?

2. Hoi! Ik ben
Pieter-Jan
Pauwels
● Foresight @ Digipolis Gent
● Bestuurslid en ex-coördinator
@ Open Knowledge Belgium
● Focus op open data, civic tech
en open innovatie

3. 1. Publiek geld =
publieke data

4. 1. Transparant zijn
2. Samenwerken
3. Combineren
4. Nieuwe dingen leren
5. Innoveren

5. OPEN KNOWLEDGE BELGIUM
“A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few”

6. Eigenaar
Hergebruiker

7. Owner
Re-user
Eigenaar
Hergebruiker

9. We organise
community
events
Open Belgium
‘14-’18
Community Driven
Conference regarding
open knowledge in
Belgium where we
gather citizens,
governments,
academics and
industry partners.
GOAL: Awareness
Open Summer of code
‘11-’18
Matching companies
and governments with
talented students that
create Open Source
innovation tools in just
4 weeks.
GOAL: Incubation of
ideas with students
Civic Labs Belgium
‘17-’18
Bi-weekly meetups
for Open Source and
Civic Technology
GOAL: Facilitation /
Incubation of ideas
with volunteers

10. We organise
community
events
Open data hackathons
‘11-’18
Promoting open data
together with
governments through
hackathons focused
on developers,
companies and
citizens.
GOAL: Ideation
Apps for Ghent in
2019 =
Apps for Museums
met 2 tracks
1. Art of Data
2. Data of art

11. FORESIGHT GENT
BY DIGIPOLIS GENT
“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”

13. ● DNA determines smart
strategy
● Data is the foundation
● Technology is an enabler
● Working together is smart
Gent - City of People

14. What’s the
benefit?
Some real life
examples

15. First the
non-culture
topics

16. Apps for Ghent example
Environmental Epiphanies
What happens when you combine tree data with bicycle routing?

17. Want big impact?
Use big image.
https://elidesc.com/2012/0
4/01/ghendetta/

18. Want big impact?
Use big image.http://student.howest.be
/bart.delrue/datavis/

19. Want big impact?
Use big image.
https://ikhaat.gent/

20. Want big impact?
Use big image.
http://consiliumvote.eu/

21. Want big impact?
Use big image.
http://bit.ly/2hJKDxz

22. How would you predict the occupation of trains in Belgium
during rush hour?
iRail Example
Recommended recommendations

23. Why would a transport service like NMBS pay a mobile agency for a smart watch application?
Smaller examples
Small efforts,big impact.

24. Some culture
topics

25. Want big impact?
Use big image.
https://ikhaat.gent/

26. Open The Box
http://horizontalcities.com/en/

27. 3 minutes near Barcelona chair
MUSEUM OF THINGS FOR PEOPLE
CC-BY Dimitris Kamaras

28. Design
Museum Gent
Venetiaanse
Gaanderijen
De Krook

29. Why in the world would any non-global organisation build Windows Phone apps?
Smaller examples
Small efforts,big impact.

30. 1. Transparant zijn
2. Samenwerken
3. Combineren
4. Nieuwe dingen leren
5. Innoveren

31. MERCI!
Je kan me nog
bereiken via
pieterjan.pauwels@digipolis.
gent
@pjpauwels & elders op’t
internet.