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Obstacles to Open Data

Obstacles to Open Data. Andrew Stott UK Transparency Board formerly Director, data.gov.uk Rome 10 Dec 2012. @dirdigeng andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com. The first 2½ years of data.gov.uk. Over 8600 datasets 37 GB of geo data Public Data Principles Open Government Licence

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Obstacles to Open Data

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  1. Obstacles to Open Data Andrew Stott UK Transparency Board formerly Director, data.gov.uk Rome 10 Dec 2012 @dirdigeng andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

  2. The first 2½ years of data.gov.uk • Over 8600 datasets • 37 GB of geo data • Public Data Principles • Open Government Licence • Transparency of salaries, spending, contracts and tenders • Four site versions, each in response to user feedback

  3. UK Government Transparency Data • For every central Ministry and regional/city council:- • Expenditure • Senior staff salaries • Expenses • Official credit cards • Contracts • Tenders • Organisation charts • Local service & performance data • Meetings

  4. Some of the usual excuses • It’s held separately by n different organisations, and we can’t join it up • It will make people angry and scared without helping them • It is technically impossible • We do not own the data • The data is just too large to be published and used • Our website cannot hold files this large • We know the data is wrong • We know the data is wrong, and people will tell us where it is wrong • We know the data is wrong, and we will waste valuable resources inputting the corrections people send us • People will draw superficial conclusions from the data without understanding the wider picture • People will construct league tables from it • It will generate more Freedom of Information requests • It will cost too much to put it into a standard format • It will distort the market • Our IT suppliers will charge us a fortune to do an ad hoc extract

  5. What’s really going on?

  6. For the data producer it seems all pain and no gain

  7. Top-level political and official leadership essential “Greater transparency will enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account” “Public information does not belong to Government, it belongs to the public.”

  8. Measure conformance

  9. Use Open Data to engage with your customers Accessible data on crime It’s very local Local team How YOU can get involved Local police Twitter feed Telephone, website, Facebook and Youtube …. Attract Inform Engage Action

  10. Internal Return on Investment • Easier sharing • Lower transaction costs • Faster access to data • Reduced admin costs • Improved decisions • More “joined up” working DataGM: Inter-agency benefits alone greatly exceed all open data costs

  11. Ensure some financial re-cycling

  12. Pause

  13. How to promote effective re-use of data Andrew Stott UK Transparency Board formerly Director, data.gov.uk Rome 10 Dec 2012 @dirdigeng andrew.stott@dirdigeng.com

  14. Release interesting & useful data

  15. and data on things that people care about

  16. Encourage requests for more data

  17. Encourage and support developers Photos: @memespring, @MadLabUK, @paul_clarke

  18. Encourage young people to use data

  19. Make the information findable

  20. Make Open Mean Open

  21. Measure reusability as well as accessibility

  22. Data Publishing – Star Quality Ease of reuse Automatic rating tools becoming available  Put your data on the Web with an Open Licence (any format) Make it available as structured data (e.g. Excel, CSV, instead of PDF) Use open, standard formats (e.g. XML, RDF) Use URLs to identify things (so people and machines can point at your data) Link your data to other people’s data

  23. Recognise success

  24. UK Open Data Institute • Develop capability of UK businesses to exploit value of Open Data • Engage developers/small businesses to build Open Data supply chains and commercial outlets • Help public sector use its own data more effectively • Ensure academic research in Open Data technologies

  25. Promoting more effective re-use • Release the data people want • Let them find it • Make sure that it is really open • Make sure that it is really re-usable • Support and encourage developers and other users

  26. End

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