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Open Data and the Common Good: Technology Solutions for Difficult Challenges

This session at IASSIST 2007 explores the management of open data, addressing the needs of academic producers, users, librarians, sponsors, and policy makers. It discusses the importance of easy access to high-quality, well-documented data and the need for tools and standards to support open data initiatives.

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Open Data and the Common Good: Technology Solutions for Difficult Challenges

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  1. IASSIST 2007Montreal, May 16 - 18, 2007Session A2Open Data and the Common GoodTechnology Solutions for Difficult Challenges Pascal Heus Open Data Foundation pheus@opendatafoundation.org http://www.opendatafoundation.org

  2. Managing open data is challenging! Academic Producers Users Librarians Sponsors Business Media/Press Policy Makers General Public Government • We are in charge of the data. We support our users but also need to protect our respondents! We have an information management problem • We want easy access to high quality and well documented data! • We need to collect the information from the producers, preserve it, and provide access to our users! Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

  3. What is open data? • Answer the needs of producers and users • Fit for use and purpose (high quality): • coherent, consistent, exhaustive, timely, relevant, etc. • Accessible • Discovery, Retrieval • Safe and Secure • Physical access is under control / log • Respondents are protected • Well documented • High quality metadata for casual users, researchers, producers and policy makers • Meets the replication standard • Based on accepted standards / specifications Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

  4. XML Solutions XML Specs Academic Producers Users Librarians Sponsors Media/Press Policy Makers Business General Public Government • Well documented data, here we come! • Great, I can provide public metadata! • Use our specifications and your will be happy! It will harmonize everything. • Now we can talk to each other! Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

  5. The need for Tools XML Specs Open Data Foundation Producers Users Librarians • We set specifications and standards. Tools are not our mandate • We produce data not tools! We don’t have the expertise. • We preserve and disseminate data not software! We don’t have the expertise • We use data and software but we don’t build tools! We don’t have the expertise Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

  6. The need for Tools Open Data Foundation Mandated to develop tools Provide cross-domain expertise in ICT and statistics Provide umbrella for coordinated development Ensure inter-operability Outline harmonized architecture and environment Promote open source / maximize reusability Build global registries Assume liability Resources/Fund raising … Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

  7. ODaF Vision • Promote and facilitate the production and use of “open data” • Public metadata, high quality, fully documented, respondent protected, easy to find, accessible in accordance to statistical principles and legislations • Foster a global harmonized framework • Facilitate the flow of data and metadata • Promotes dialog between all stakeholders Unlock the Data! Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

  8. Open Data and the Common Good • Data Confidentiality and the Common GoodJulia Lane and Kyle FennelNational Opinion Research Center • The Open Data EnvironmentChuck HumphreyCanada Research Data CenterUniversity of Alberta • Walking the Wire: How Technology Helps Us Achieve the Correct BalanceArofan Gregory and Jostein RyssevikOpen Data Foundation Open Data Foundation – IASSIST 2007

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