2014 11-17 crichton institute talk on open data

In July of 1938 FDR motored to a bucolic setting along Rockville Pike in the then-small village of Bethesda, Maryland—several miles north of the District and directly across the road from the new National Institutes of Health.The presidential car paused on a grassy knoll west of dense woodlands. FDR reached over the side of his open touring car and touched the ground with his cane, announcing "We will build it here."

Do the right thing Do the thing right

1) Delivery of improved public services through public bodies making use of the data

Do the right thing Do the thing right

• Discovery – DCAT-AP [& INSPIRE]

• Interoperability – Text/XML

http://data.opendatasupport.eu/https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/home

https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/metadata/wiki/INSPIRE_profile_of_DCAT-AP_-_Core_version

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/

http://standards.data.gov.uk/

Open Standards for software & data

• Collaboratively Defined• Using a Transparent process• Using Due Process• Available fairly (free)• Have Market support• Have irrevocable rights compatible

with open source

XMLText

ODF

SPARQL Query Results

CSVJSON Atom

RSS

vCard/iCal

XHTML

GML/KML

“Smart data and dumb code is a lot better than the other way round” (Eric Raymond)

2) Wider social and economic benefits through innovative use of the data

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• Discovery – DCAT-AP [& INSPIRE]

• Interoperability – Text/XML• Explicit Semantics – RDF• Unique Identifiers – RDF• Useful formats – JSON• Tools for app development

http://achievementstandards.org/content/asn-toolkit

http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/

Explicit Semantics – RDF

Unique Identifiers – RDF

Useful formats – JSON

Tools for app development

http://www.citadelonthemove.eu

3) Accountability and transparency of delivery of our public services

Do the right thing Do the thing right

• Discovery – DCAT-AP [& INSPIRE]

• Interoperability – Text/XML• Explicit Semantics – RDF• Unique Identifiers – RDF• Useful formats – JSON• Tools for app development• Helpful Subsetting• Tutorials

Industrialised Conversion Strategies

Excel or PDF XHTMLApache “Tika”

Relational DB

http://tika.apache.org/e.g http://www.semantechs.co.uk/

SPARQL API

“Traditional” API

CSV, JSON, XML, RDF

http://d2rq.org/d2r-serverhttp:://www.openlinksw.com/

http://apigee.come.g. https://gist.github.com/pwin/8391942

“Data As A Service”

More Ideas

https://github.com/UKGovLD UK Government Linked Data Working Group

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/ EC Joinup Programme

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/ EPSI Platform

http://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/ W3C / EC Share PSI 2.0 project

http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Main_Page W3C Data on the Web WG

http://www.citadelonthemove.eu/ EC “Citadel on the move” project

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peter.winstanley@scotland.gsi.gov.uk 0300 244 6895

Thank you Use Standards!!