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Data Publishing at OECD
Past. Present. Future.
Toby Green
Head of Publishing
toby.green@oecd.org

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More data than you can shake a stick at!
So how do we publish for everyone’s benefit?
Including
him

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User profile Typical task
Policy advisor Preparing for a speech
Business analyst Client business advice
Researcher/ Statistician Data crunching for a report
University Librarian Assisting someone with a data query
Journalist Creating a topical story and graphic
NGO/Citizen with a cause Facts to support an argument
Student Essay (for tomorrow morning)
Data aggregators/resellers Aggregate data with other sources
Developers Build an App or Viz
Who needs our data?

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“Let me find,
understand and
use
the data I (really, really) need.”
What they really, really want . . .

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So how do we publish for everyone?
We add a little value . . .

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
CD-ROM
DatasetsDataAnnuals
MOBILE
IndicatorAnnuals
MOBILE
CitationTool
DataPortal
Monographs,
Papers
MOBILE
Online Browser
Machine-Machine
Stories,
Vizualisations
eXplorer
Better Life
Index
DataLab
SinglePublishingPlatform
Shareable,Embeddable

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“Let me find, understand and use
the data I (really, really) need.”
Single Publishing platform

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• What is a ‘dataset’?
• Supplemental data = original datasets
• Real time datasets, versions of datasets
• Old, ‘retired’, datasets
• Citing datasets
Data publishing challenges

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• Improving the scholarly record
• Enriching papers, monographs
• Reaching new audiences
Data publishing opportunities

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Data Apps – WIN arguments in pubs!
Data Apps iPhone now, iPad and Android (by end July)
- iEconomy
- Factbook

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Cool stuff . . . is this a future?
• Cool new embeddable, shareable and
personalisable charting tool (in beta)
• Data Lab
• New Data portal (2014)
No sheep (or Spice Girls) were harmed in the preparation of this presentation.
Thank You
Toby.green@oecd.org @TobyABGreen