Hollie Lubbock
UI design for open data
@hollielubbock www.hollielubbock.co.uk
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— User experience / designer— Many cultural institutions— Museums, galleries some commercial
Back ground for some projects
— data as inspiration— designing the data— helping users see the possibilities of data
What is open data?
— free to use— ideally easy to reuse & remix — available in an accessible format— part of the larger semantic web— Tim Berners Lee 5 star system
http://opendefinition.org/od/http://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data
Use in the semantic web
The Semantic Web isn’t just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
How can it be used?
£200m possible saving to nhs by switching to a generic drug
http://theodi.org/blog/a-new-era-of-data-innovation
£200m possible savings
— nhs is the National Health Service— On one single type of medication— Found by analyzing open data— in 8 weeks— many more savings possible
Mastodon C (ODI start up)
http://theodi.org/blog/a-new-era-of-data-innovation
How can it be used?
Invisible Airs, YoHa (ODI data as culture)
http://vimeo.com/32030340
Why visualization is important
Data skills will become more important as data plays a larger part in our lives
— raw data isn’t easy to interpret— maps, graphs etc. easier to digest
Visualization in history
Florence Nightingale: Causes of Mortality infographic from 1858
So how is this working in the cultural sector?
— common thesauri being developed (cidoc crm)— sharing collections data — Tate (art gallery) — Victoria & Albert museum (uk design museum)— developing Api’s
http://www.cidoc-crm.orghttp://www.vam.ac.uk/api/qb/https://github.com/tategallery/collection
The Future
— maybe a requirement for government funding— GDShavestartedthisoffinUK
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
What happens when museums get together and share?
Researchspace
— prototype— tool for academics to collaborate — cross collections searching— common thesauri / taxonomy — RDF triple store at the heart
http://www.researchspace.org/
How would we ideally like to search?
— search based on sentence structure
Visualization challenges
— definingthesearchterm(freebase)
Visualization challenges
— helping the user learn the interface
Visualization challenges
— representing a complex SPARQL query
Demo...
http://vimeo.com/94547832
Data as a pulse of relevance / trends
Royal Shakespeare Company
— showing how Shakespeare is relevant — datafromebay,flickrandtwitter— Twitter API change (not working now)
http://myshakespeare.rsc.org.uk/banquo/
Using open data as an enhancement
Victoria & Albert Museum
— world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, — collection of over 4.5 million objects— founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/http://www.othermedia.com/data/files/othermedia-vawebsite-qa-5.pdf
Navigation
—reflectedorganisationalstructure— not helpful for users— is there a better way?
Using open data as an enhancement
— based on search— templatingonthefly— uses semantic web to draw in relevant topics from external sites— exposed thesauri
http://www.vam.ac.uk/http://www.othermedia.com/data/files/othermedia-vawebsite-qa-5.pdf
The internal fight over the homepage
On the fly templating
— system cached for popular topics
Topic or Theme hubs
Enhancing the topic
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