Transforming  Federal  Informa1on  into  Open  Data  for  

business  innova*on  

Data  Transparency  2013  Ronald  Reagan  &  Interna.onal  Trade  Center    10-­‐Sept-­‐2013  

Data  Transparency  2013  

We are specialists in Open Data Policy & Implementation  

Data  Transparency  2013  

US  Government  spends  billions  of  dollars  collec1ng  data  that  is  locked  in  proprietary  data  silos  –  databases,  spreadsheets,  CRM  solu1ons,  data  warehouses  and  email  systems             Tax  payers  are  not  seeing  the  

benefit  …    

Until now …  

NOAA EPA AirNow EPA Sunwise

Wikipedia NLM

Legisla*ve  Branch  Progress  

#1  -­‐  The  DATA  Act    

Calls  for  publica1on  of  Federal  spending  data  using  open  data  standards.    

#2  -­‐  Persistent  Iden*fiers    GPO  manages  an  online  version  of  Federal  informa1on  deemed  essen1al  to  our  democracy.    GPO  has  been  using  Open  Source  soEware  since  1998  to  run  essen*al  services  for  the  Federal  Government    

Execu*ve  Branch  Leadership  

Open  and  machine  readable  means  “data  is  structured  in  a  way  that  enables  the  data  to  be  fully  discoverable  and  usable  by  end  users.”  

   -­‐  Execu1ve  Office  of  the  The  President,  OMB,  9-­‐May-­‐2013  

 

Data  Transparency  2013  

Increased innovation by entrepreneurs & industry

Lowered Costs by eliminating duplication & fraud  

Reduced burden on regulated industries

Value  

MODEL    

PROPOSITION  

Data  Transparency  2013  

Policy  e.g.,  DATA  Act  

Open  Source  

Community  Engagement  

Best  Prac1ces  

Open  Data  Standards   Drupal  

GitHub  Callimachus  PURLs  …  

Persistent  IDs  

Open  Data  

Open  Data  Ecosystem  

Government  Entrepreneurs  Industry  Researchers  Standards  bodies  RDFa  

JSON-­‐LD  XML  …  

Data  Transparency  2013  

Leverage  Open    

CDC  EPA  US  Census  

DBpedia  Pub  Med  NLM  

Web  of  Data  

Data  silos  

SMS  

Email  

Web  

Persistent  Iden1fiers  

DATA,  OPEN  SOURCE  &  WEB  STANDARDS  

Data  Transparency  2013  

 •  Long  track  record  of  innova1on  on  the  Web    •  Runs  produc1on  Web  services  for  the  Legisla1ve  Branch  and  Federal  Agencies  

•  Strategists  for  persistent  iden1fiers  for  high  availability  Web  sites  

•  Commercial  support  for  the  leading  Open  Source  Linked  Data  pla^orm,  Callimachus  

 •  Woman-­‐owned  small  business,  based  in  Arlington  VA  

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