Open Data Scamp She Says

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Scamp: She SaysThe Power of Open Data

Tiffany St JamesThursday 01 July, 2010

What is Open Data

• Non personal data

• Information not code

• Figures, statistics

• Excel, tables, csv files

• Every report published

Why is this important?

• Public sector reform

• Global leadership positioning

• Transparency

• Social benefits

• Economic benefits

What did the UK Govt do?

• Opened up a repository for data

• Made a pre-requisite of departments to publish data

• Created an online community of developers

• Made ‘linked data’ a reality

It looks like this:

Why is this world class?

• A way of marking up data for the web

• Enables concepts to be linked together

• Letting people walk through the data by concept e.g. data that is about:

• Schools

• With a budget over £3m

• In South East of England

UNCLASSIFIED

How did they do it?

• Work with people who were best in class

• Establish processes for release

• Build a back end

• Soft launch

• Blogger briefings

• Meet the team

• Created visualisations to show people

Other apps include

• AirTEXT – airquality in London

• Asbo-rometer iPhone app

• Crowdspeak – 3000 candidates for election

• Compare the Care Home

• Day Nurseries

• Where did my tax go?

• UK Climate projections

Real time travel and transport

What needs to happen next

• Getting data out of the geek ghettos to enable people to

• interrogate it

• play with it

• interact with it

Carbon Footprint Calculator

What can we all learn from this?

• Data does not have to be boring

• How you can bring alive information for your clients?

• How you can get feedback and ideas with interactive tools?

• How can you collaborate or facilitate ideas that people find interesting in the online space?

Presentation at:http://community.stimulationltd.co.uk/

Tiffany St James

tiffany@stimulationltd.co.uk

@tiffanystjames

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