Data.gov Open Data Day

Data.gov Open Data Day

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  Data.gov and OpenData in the United States Jeanne Holm, Data.gov February 23, 2013
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  Data.gov • Provides instantaccess to ~400,000 datasets in easy to use formats • Contributions from UN, World Bank, and 180 agencies, cities, and states • 18 communities ranging from energy to public safety • Encourage development of innovative applications • Drive innovation and knowledge use across the globe 2
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  Stories Around OpenData 3 http://alpha.data.gov
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  Open Communities Community ✓ Developers Safety ✓ Energy ✓ Health ✓ Law ✓ Education ✓ Ocean ✓ Manufacturing ✓ Business ✓ Ethics ✓ States ✓ Counties ✓ Cities ✓ Sustainable Supply Chain ✓ + many more… 4
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  Data.gov Capabilities • Present • Future – Dataset – OGPL Management • Open source platform • Workflow engine and • Drupal + CKAN metadata editor – Search – API key registry • Keyword and faceted • API key authorization filtering • Application statistics • 6.7 billion triples – Enhanced search – Geo • Federated catalogs from • Search, harvest, and agencies, cities, and + visualize – Vocab.Data.gov – Vocab.Data.gov • Vocabulary and • Federated ontologies schema engine for • URIs for all data linked data • URIs for health data 5
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  Open Government Platform (OGPL) • Open source co-developed by India’s National Informatics Centre and US Data.gov Team • Data.gov is migrating to OGPL in 2012 • Coordinating with open data providers, platforms, and communities like W3C, World Bank, CKAN, and open source developers worldwide • Public commits and tracker on Github • Public mailing list for discussion • Join the community! – https://github.com/opengovtplatform – http://www.opengovplatform.org – Opengovplatform @OGPL 6
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  OGPL Partners • Led by India and the US • Implementing in Ghana, Rwanda, Canada, and US • Adoption of worldwide standards 7
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  A Global MovementHas Begun to Provide Transparency and Democratization of Data Don’t see your site? Don’t see your site? Update via Update via @usdatagov @usdatagov 8
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  The Path Ahead •Bring data up and out of government to the public ★ • Make data accessible and linked ★★★★★ • Create communities to understand and apply data • Connect and collaborate with small businesses, industry, and academia to drive innovation • Continue to develop OGPL with community development • Share with others to understand global issues We need to securely architect our systems for interoperability and openness from conception. —Digital Government 9
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  Hack the CodeToday! • Your call to action: 1. Get the data in the hands of the citizens 2. Make the solutions sustainable 3. Make a difference 10
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  Let’s work togetherto set the data free! www.Data.Gov @usdatagov 11