Open Data 101
Open data is freely available data that can be used and shared by anyone. The federal government defines high-value open data as information that increases agency accountability, improves public knowledge, furthers agency missions, creates economic opportunities, and responds to public needs. For data to be open, it must be public, accessible, described, reusable, complete, timely, and managed after release. Open data timelines show its emergence in 1995 and increased adoption by governments in the 2000s, with many open data initiatives launched under President Obama. Open data is important for transparency, innovation, civic empowerment, and economic development. Dashboards track countries', states', and cities' progress in implementing open data policies and releasing datasets.
Open Data 101
- 1. Open Data 101 How Linux & Open Source Are Enabling Open Data
- 2. What Is Open Data? Textbook definition: Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike. http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/
- 3. Federal Government Definition High-value information is information that can be used to increase agency accountability and responsiveness; improve public knowledge of the agency and its operations; further the core mission of the agency; create economic opportunity; or respond to need and demand as identified through public consultation.
- 4. Federal Government Standards Public. Accessible. Described. Reusable. Complete. Timely. Managed Post-Release.
- 5. Open Data Timeline 1995: First known appearance in print. (scientific agency) 5/2006: CKAN 0.1 released 10/2007: DC launches first govt. Data catalog 12/2007: Open data advocacy meeting in Sebastopol, CA - 30 Internet / Open Source advocates
- 6. Open Data Timeline Cont. 1/20/2009: President Obama signs the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government 2/2009: Tim Berners-Lee TED Talk on need for govt. to release raw data 5/2009: Data.gov launched Summer 2009: NY State Senate first government organization to post government data to GitHub
- 7. Open Data Timeline Cont. 5/2010: CKAN releases V 1.0 (Python app) 5/2013: President Obama issues Executive Memo requiring all government data to default to machine readable and open. Also Project Open Data website is launched. 9/2013: DKAN launched (Drupal) 5/2016: Open Data Act introduced in Congress
- 8. Open Data Today 3/2016: White House issues draft policy on open source use by government, puts FY2017 proposed budget on GitHub. Govt Agencies sponsor hackathons to encourage innovative use of their data. (Earth Day Hackathon 4/22 at GSA!) Data.gov has over 194,000 datasets States / Cities are following, in some cases leading
- 9. Why is Open Data Important?
- 11. Transparency
- 15. So How Are We Really Doing?
- 16. Dashboards Federal: https://labs.data.gov/dashboard/offices/2015-11-30 States: https://census.usopendata.org/ New York City: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dashboard
- 17. Examples Don’t Eat At Fix My Street AirNow Bank Local College Scorecard Leafsnap
- 18. Resources Open Data Handbook Data.gov CKAN DKAN Open Data Inception CartodB
Editor's Notes
- #3: http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/