A short introduction to the term "Openness" as it is used by three different organizations in the geospatial domain, the OGC, OSGeo and OSM - plus an outlook where we should be going.

1. SOTM 2011 What is Open in OSGeo, OGC and OSM? Download slide sets: http://arnulf.us/publications/what_is_openness.odp http://arnulf.us/publications/what_is_openness.pdf Arnulf Christl http://www.metaspatial.net

2. Content What is Openness Today?

3. Introduction to Open Standards

4. Open Source

5. Open Data Future development Open Linked Data

6. Transparency

7. Arnulf Christl, Spatial Systems Architect OGC Architecture Board Member

8. Current President of OSGeo

9. OpenStreetMap advocate My alter ego Seven is an Ex-Borg

10. Openness – Opinions

11. Translating Openness openness Freimut {m}

12. Offenheit {f}

13. Offenherzigkeit {f}

14. Aufgeschlossenheit {f} [Empfänglichkeit] openness of mind Aufgeschlossenheit {f} [nicht engstirnig] openness to risk Risikobereitschaft {f} sense of openness Gefühl {n} der Offenheit openness and accountability Transparenz {f} [fig.] http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/openness.html

15. ...and translating back... Freimut Frankness Aufgeschlossenheit candidness

16. candor

17. directness

18. forthrightness

19. frankness

20. ingenuousness

21. plainness Transparenz accountability

22. transparency Risikobereitschaft readiness to assume risk Empfänglichkeit predisposition

23. receptiveness

24. receptivity

25. susceptibility http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/openness.html

26. Technical Susceptibility Störempfindlichkeit / stören annoy

27. baffle

28. bother

29. break up

30. bug

31. derange disrupt

32. disturb

33. faze

34. incommode

35. interfere

36. interrupt jam

37. perturb

38. trouble

39. violate

40. More takes on Openness Free Software ( http://www.fsf.org/ )

41. INSPIRE & Public Sector Information (EU)

42. Data Liberation Front (Google internal initiative)

43. Linked Open Data (W3C definition)

44. US-Open ( http://www.usopen.org/ )

45. Freedom of Information Act ( USA gov )

46. Maps for OSM (Imports, Microsoft Bing Maps, ...)

47. WikiLeaks ( Global Transparancy , mirror )

48. DNS (Domain Name System)

49. Internet Protocol Suite

50. TCP/IP, TLS

51. HTTP

52. URI

53. ...

54. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet How Open is the Internet?

55. Open Definition http://www.opendefinition.org/software-service/ http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/

56. Definitions in the Geospatial-Domain Open (Standards) http://opengeospatial.org

57. Open (Source) Software http://osgeo.org

58. Open (Free) Data http://openstreetmap.org

59. OGC's Word Cloud Courtsey by Paul Ramsey

60. Vision: Realization of the full societal, economic and scientific benefits of integrating electronic location resources into commercial and institutional processes worldwide. Mission: To serve as a global forum for the collaboration of developers and users of spatial data products and services, and to advance the development of international standards for geospatial interoperability. http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/vision

61. Open in OGC All (with the appropriate financial background) can participate.

62. All standards can be used royalty free (without cost) by anybody.

63. All can comment on the standards during the public (open) discussion period.

64. All can propose change requests

65. OGC Change Requests http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cr

66. Where was that again?

67. Consensus Oriented Is there any objection to unanimous consent? Any discussion? No, … motion passes.

68. Yes? Then please explain ... Friendly amendment …

69. Go back to start …

70. Courtsey by Paul Ramsey

71. Open in OSGeo All can participate

72. All software must be Open Source / Free Software licensed.

73. All processes of the organization are open to public scrutiny.

74. Free Software Free Software is a license model!

75. Not like "Free beer" but as in Fre Speech

76. Free to: use anywhere and for any purpose

77. understand and improve

78. pass on to anybody else

79. provide services and grow a business around ...today and tomorrow! Free Software!

80. Open Source Open Source is a way of developing things collaboratively : Only source code can be modified

81. End users typially use the machine readbale (binary) version (the executable)

82. Dvelopers prefer open soce code because it makes reuse of algorithms and extending functionality much easier.

83. Do-ocracy A do-ocracy [...] is an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. Responsibilities attach to people who do the work, rather than elected or selected officials. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Logo (2011-04-03)

84. But: Your software is worthless … … without data! Schuyler Erle

85. Courtsey by Paul Ramsey

86. OpenStreetMap

87. OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

88. OpenStreetMap Free and Open Data (what)

89. Crowd Sourced Data (how) Other terms can be used to describe parts of the phenomenon, for example: "Volunteered Geographic Information" (Goodchild, 2007) … but it lacks the all important aspect of free reusability of the data.

90. OpenStreetMap Open in OpenStreetMap All can participate

91. All can create maps

92. All can use and get the maps

93. Future Evolution Resources & Representations

94. Semantics

95. …

96. .

97. …

98. Fully Open

99. The Five Stars for Linked Open Data ★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license ★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table) ★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel) ★★★★ use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your structured data (make data adressable) ★★★★★ Link your data with other data to create new information From an idea by Tim Berners Lee: Slide set: http://inkdroid.org/journal/2010/06/04/the-5-stars-of-open-linked-data/ Online example: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/

100. Geo Data

101. Map Images Swisstopo – the national map agency of Switzerland makes 500.000.000 tiles available through a cloud infrastructure for it's citizens. The underlying Data is not available freely (yet). http://map.geo.admin.ch/

102. Ordnance Survey Open Data http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/

103. Denmark http://geo.oiorest.dk/

104. The Five Stars for Linked Open Data ★ make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license ★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table) ★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel) ★★★★ use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your structured data (make data adressable) ★★★★★ Link your data with other data to create new information From an idea by Tim Berners Lee: Slide set: http://inkdroid.org/journal/2010/06/04/the-5-stars-of-open-linked-data/ Online example: http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/

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106. More Links... http://www.semic.eu/

107. http://www.ffii.org/

108. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/egovernment/index_en.htm

109. http://www.epsiplus.net/

110. http://www.osgeo.org

111. http://opendata.org