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Open Data Landscape. Jeni Tennison Technical Director, ODI. Open Data Institute. Independent institute £10m over 5 years from TSB Matching with money from: paying members training & professional services philanthropic investors research grants. Adoption Curve.
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Open Data Landscape Jeni Tennison Technical Director, ODI
Open Data Institute • Independent institute • £10m over 5 years from TSB • Matching with money from: • paying members • training & professional services • philanthropic investors • research grants
Adoption Curve Pnautilus at en.wikipedia
Stakeholders Government Business Civil Society Researchers
Trend #1 Open Data for Growth
Change in Consumers • Activists to entrepreneurs • Freedom of Information • right to know • transparency / accountability • Right to Data • making that information easier to analyse • Sustainable publication • enabling businesses to be built
Change in Publishers • Not just government any more • Third-sector benefits • International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) • Research benefits • more impact on the world • Business benefits • reputational • outsourced R&D
Professionalising Open Data • Enterprise-level tools • CKAN Socrata • Training • Open Data in Practice training • Professional services • consultancy & development • Kitemarks • Open Data Certificate
Levels of Open Data Expert – information infrastructure Standard – routine publication Pilot – trials supporting feedback Raw – great start at the basics
Impact • help identifying improvements • OpenStreetMap • transportAPI • legislation.gov.uk • data.police.uk • Ordnance Survey • help setting bold targets • "Can NHS England be Expert?" • GDS adding targets to spend controls
Trend #2 Need for Business Models
Selling Data selling enforcing data customer salespeople licensing lawyers
Shifts in Demand film music newspapers software data price newrevenue quantity
Open Data is a Tool data
enhanced informed data diverse
Trend #3 Collaboration with Open Data
Collaborate informed informed • distributed effort • reduced cost • enhanced value • host benefits • improved data • moderation • examples • MusicBrainz • OpenStreetMap • legislation.gov.uk data lower
Tools • Collaboration requires internal use • visualisation • analysis • Distributed control • scrapers • aggregators • Version control • "git for data"
Hype Curve Jeremykemp at en.wikipedia
Navigating the Trough • Build evidence • deep stories of open data success • capture interest & imagination • underlying hard figures • Pave cowpaths • build on good practices • Experiment • no one knows where we'll end up
Questions? jeni@theodi.org @JeniT http://theodi.org