10. Data Publishing – Berners-Lee’s Scale
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Put your data on the Web with an Open
Licence unstructured (eg PDF, HTML)
Make it available as structured data
(eg Excel, ESRI)
Use open, standard data formats
(eg XML, CSV, JSON, OGC)
Use URIs to identify things (so you and
others have unique reference)
Link your data to other people’s data,
and help them link to yours (eg RDF)
BetterWorseMinimum
http://5stardata.info/
12. Deloitte POPSIS Case Studies
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Case Data Type Country Increase
BEV Mapping AT Downloads: +200% to +7,000%
DECA Addresses DK Uers: +10,000%
Destatis Statistics DE Users: +1800%
Downloads: +800%
IGN-
CNIG
Mapping ES Volume: +200%
Users: +200%
KNMI Weather NL Users: +1000%
Met.No Weather NO Users: +3000%
Spanish
Cadaster
Cadastral ES Downloads: +800% to +1900%
25. Contracts: A great example from Slovakia
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http://www.otvorenezmluvy.sk/
Original text
of contract
from Gov
website
“Rate this
contract”
Key details
and links
Fair-Play
Alliance
34. OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT
• A tool developed by the World Bank to help
prioritize actions in an Open Data Program.
• A rapid assessment to identify where
interventions can most effectively applied.
• A tool designed to support an economical and
action-oriented assessment of the readiness of a
national government to evaluate, design, and
implement an Open Data Program.
35. OPEN DATA READINESS ASSESSMENT
What is?
- Diagnostic and planning
tool
- Recommendations for
action based on best
practices
- Start of a robust and
consultative dialogue
among relevant
stakeholders
- Beginning of a process
- ‘Living’ document
What is NOT?
- Measurement tool
- Formal evaluation
exercise
- Successful and
sustainable Open Data
Program
- The end or result of a
process
45. Datasets examined this week
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Tourism
Energy
Environment
Contracts
Census
Education
Budget
Crime
Payments
Land
Statistics
Weather
Elections
Aviation
Prices
UWI
Health
Labour
Arts Events
Agriculture
Company
Imports
Roads
Arts Sudsidies
Youth
Library
Maps
46. Issues to discuss
Opportunities for Open Data in T&T?
What data is important to you?
What do you/would you do with it?
How easy/difficult is it to get data currently?
What happens when you try?
What examples of data-driven applications?
How widespread are the skills to use data?
How do developers/activists organise?
How is the access to supporting services eg
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