Open Data Engagement - Using Open Data w3c Workshop

19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies

Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism

Supporting open data use through active engagement

Tim Davies - @timdavies

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Davies, T. (2010). Open data, democracy and public sector reform: A look at open government data use from data. gov. uk. - Accessed from http://www.opendataimpacts.net/report/



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Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems





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Key challenges in summary:

- Users of open data have diverse needs

- Effective use of open data requires more than the dataset

- The stability of ‘eco systems’ built on top of open data is hindered by the relative invisibility of the different stages

of data re-use

- Open data for policy making and governance comes from both government and from other data providers





A social response

★ Be demand driven

★ ★ Put data in context

★ ★ ★ Support conversa4on around data

★ ★ ★ ★ Build capacity, skills and networks

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Collaborate on data as a common resource

Inspired by ques.on from Antonio Acunda of Data.gov.uk (@diabolus). Developed with input at UKGovCamp or subsequently online from: @.mdavies; @hokulele; @anthonyzach; @jonfoster; @jagus. and @exmosis. Par.cular thanks to Jag (@jagus.) and Graham (@exmosis) for ongoing input. Drawing on the Five Stars of Open Linked Data outlined by Sir Tim Berners-‐Lee, 2010.

Five stars of open data engagement

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• Are your choices about the data you release, how it is structured, and the tools and support provided around it based on community needs and demands?• Have you got ways of listening to people’s requests for data, and responding with open data?






• Do you provide clear informa>on to describe that data you provide, including informa>on about frequency of updates, data formats and data quality?• Do you include qualita>ve informa>on alongside datasets such as details of how the data was created, or manuals for working with the data?• Do you link from data catalogue pages to analysis of the data that your organisa>on, or third-‐par>es, have already carried out with it, or to third-‐party tools for working with the data?






• Can people comment on datasets, or create a structured conversa>on around data to network with other data users?• Do you join the conversa>ons?• Are there easy ways to contact the individual ‘data owner’ in your organisa>on to ask them ques>ons about the data, or to get them to join the conversa>on?• Are there offline opportuni>es to have conversa>ons that involve your data?






• Do you provide or link to tools for people to work with your datasets?• Do you provide or link to How To guidance on using open data analysis tools, so people can build their capacity and skills to interpret and use data in the ways they want to?• Do you go out into the community to run skill-‐building sessions on using data in par>cular ways, or using par>cular datasets?• Do you sponsor or engage with capacity building to help the community work with open data?






• Do you have feedback loops so people can help you improve your datasets?• Do you collaborate with the community to create new data resources (e.g. derived datasets)?• Do you broker or provide support to people to build and sustain useful tools and services that work with your data?• Do you work with other organisa>ons to connect up your data sources.














Concluding remarks

- Supporting citizen empowerment through open data needs greater attention to the engagement dimensions of open data

policy and practice;

- Research needs to engage in detail with the complex and messy practices of open data re-use, and to study open datasets within their organisational, political, social and

technical contexts;

- We need to architect open data technologies to support effective engagement, recognising the diverse and distributed

nature of open data re-use;



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Open Data Engagement - Using Open Data w3c Workshop