fosscomm2013_ENGAGE_workshop_on_open_public_data

fosscomm2013_ENGAGE_workshop_on_open_public_data

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  FP7‐INFRASTRUCTURES‐2011‐2, RI-283700 FOSSCOMM 2013,April 20-21 ENGAGE Workshop on Open Public Data Harris Alexopoulos, cPhD University of the Aegean Information Systems Laboratory
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  What we aregoing to see today…? 0 (Open Public Data) || (Public Sector Information) || (Open Government Data) 0 What is it ? 0 What is its importance ? 0 What does exist out there ? 0 The ENGAGE Contribution - open collaborative platform 0 Value proposition 0 Components 0 Platform 0 Communities Contribution 0 Requesting your feedback 0 Run a usability test 0 Bubs reporting for BETA version
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  What is OpenData ? 0 Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control 0 All EU Public Sector bodies are advised to provide Public Sector Information as Open Data (the PSI Directive, 2003/2008)
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  Why is OpenData important ? 0 Organises public knowledge 0 Supports transparency / fights against corruption 0 Can motivate citizens to collaborate in governance 0 Can contribute to better democratic processes and evidence-based decision making 0 Provides data to other sciences for solving problems 0 Gives ideas for new services and start-ups to citizens and SME’s
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  Can you giveus some good examples ? 0 Organises public knowledge : data.gov (UK) 0 Leads to better, new services : data.gov (US) 0 Supports transparency: diavgeia.gr (GR) 0 Can motivate citizens: toronto.ca (CA) 0 Fights against corruption : ipaidabribe.com (IN) 0 Can contribute to better democracy: opengov (GR) 0 Gives ideas for start-ups: Open Data Institute (UK) 0 Provides data to science for solving complex problems of the society: ENGAGE (EU)
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  The 5 modelfor open data ★ make PUBLIC stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license ★★ make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table) ★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel) ★★★★ use URIs to denote things, so that people can point at your stuff ★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide context
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  And, beyond 5Stars ? 0 Provide enough metadata for allowing others to find your open data 0 Give a clear “open licensing” for allowing reuse of information without legal burdens 0 Provide visualisations of open and linked data 0 But most importantly … provide your data as a service
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  The ENGAGE “Two-way”Open Data Usage Scenarios Delivering Public Sector Data to Researchers and Citizens Delivering Open Data Needs and guidelines to Public Sector Organisations
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  An Open DataPlatform generic architecture User Interface Application Interface (for systems) Various Apps (PC & mobile) Data Curation (annotation, linking, formats) Data Visualisation Data Linking Data Acquisition UI Data Acquisition API Directories of sources Acquisition Processing Provision
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  "The problems thatwe have created cannot be solved at the level of thinking that created them" Albert Einstein And, not to forget:
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  Create your community(ies)with members of mutual interests Each community will be able to increase the value of its data sets by applying their own perspectives based on its unique needs Similar data may be out there – but you never get lost… Upload your work and share it with your community Find other valuable for your work data sets uploaded by your community (Collaborate / Exchange / Ask / Provide) Combine their results with yours – make new datasets
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  Search in alldiverse and dispersed data sources in EU supported by ENGAGE (metadata interconnection) Find your target data sets in whatever level (Lee’s 5- stars system) Be able to transform your datasets keeping the valuable information with the ENGAGE external tools (GoogleRefine, Scrapperwiki etc.) See your results through visualisation tools Structure your data according to your needs – control all the levels of your dataset (metadata, vocabularies creation, uploading, format) Refine existing datasets by (metadata enrichment, export the already shaped vocabularies)
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  Requesting your feedback… 0The ENGAGE BETA platform 0 Usability Test 0 Bugs Reporting
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  eGovernance Research isabout our sustainable future: It is not enough to “do the things right” … we have to “do the right things”