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”. Open Data follows similar “open” concepts that have proven to be valuable in the information economy such as Open Standards, Open Source Software, Open Content and has been followed more recently by variations on the theme such as Open Science and Open Government. Open Data allows information of common value to be reused without needing to be recreated. The economic benefits of Open Data include cost reduction, organizational efficiencies and the facilitation of commonly held understanding. The costs of implementing Open Data deployment strategies tend to be iterative on top of existing information infrastructure. This presentation will describe Open Data and its place in the ecosystem of economic and governmental discourse.

1. Open
By
Default
David Wood
david@3roundstones.com
http://w3id.org/3rs/openbydefault
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

2. “Open data is a philosophy and
practice requiring that certain
data be freely available to
everyone, without restrictions
from copyright, patents or other
mechanisms of control.”

3. “Open data is a philosophy and
practice requiring that certain
data be freely available to
everyone over a network who
complies with well-defined and
liberal license terms.”

4. Open Standards
⬇
Open Source
⬇
Open Content
⬋ ⬇ ⬊
Open
⬌
Open
⬌
Open
Science
Data
Government

6. The information economy accounts for
~10% of the GDP of most developed nations, and
more than 50% of their economic growth.
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf

10. ©
Copyright © All Rights Reserved

13. ©
Public Domain: No Rights Reserved

14. The Spectrum of Greed
- +
Public domain Copyright

16. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man. "
-- George Bernard Shaw

18. "People said I should accept the world.
Bullshit! I don't accept the world."
-- Richard Stallman

22. 1976 1983 1986 1991 1994 1998 2001 2007

23. The Spectrum of Greed
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Public domain Copyright

24. The Spectrum of Greed
Bill Gates
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Public domain Copyright

25. The Spectrum of Greed
Richard Stallman Bill Gates
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Public domain Copyright

26. The Spectrum of Greed
Richard Stallman Bill Gates
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Public domain Eric Raymond
Larry Lessig Copyright

27. The Spectrum of Greed
Richard Stallman David Wood
Bill Gates
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Eric Raymond
Public domain Larry Lessig Copyright

33. ©All Rights Reserved.
Ask Permission.
©CC Some Rights Reserved.
©Reproduce, adapt,
distribute,
but license the same.
Some permissions granted.

35. Also iTunes U, MIT Open Courseware, etc.

36. The Creator-Endorsed Mark is a
logo that a distributor can use to
indicate that a work is distributed in
a way that its creator
endorses — typically, by the
distributor sharing some of the
profits with the creator.
The mark is not an alternative to a
free license; rather, it's meant to be
used in conjunction with free
licensing.

40. 08 Oct 2007

41. 07 Nov 2007

42. 10 Nov 2007

43. 28 Feb 2008

44. 31 Mar 2008

45. 18 Sep 2008

46. 27 Mar 2009

47. !
Linked Data
http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/13/tim_berners_lee_web/

48. 14 Jul 2009

49. Sep 2010

50. Sep 2011

52. Governments

53. Licensing

58. transform U.S. federal spending from
disconnected documents into open,
standardized data, and to publish that
data online.

61. From Wikipedia
From
various
EPA
programs
Open Street Map
From Wikimedia Commons

63. Audience for EPA Data
• Middle school student doing a science project
• Concerned citizen worried about local pollution
• Environmental Science PhD from EPA
• Doctor from NIH writing a research paper

64. How much mercury did
Hanson Permanente Cement
release in 2004?

65. Finding Hanson Permanente

66. Finding Mercury Released in 2004
1
2

67. TRI Report

68. Data Reuse

69. What should you do?
• Only use, reuse, remix work that you have
rights to.
• License your work!

70. What should you do?
• Familiarize yourself with legislation
requiring government transparency
• Help ensure your agency leverages open
materials for cost reduction
• Foster openness for economic benefit

71. http://3roundstones.com/http://www.manning.com/dwood linking-government-data/

72. Open
By
Default
David Wood
david@3roundstones.com
http://w3id.org/3rs/openbydefault
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

73. Credits - CC Licensed
Triumvirate http://www.flickr.com/photos/reidab/393803339/
Web
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poper/179970823/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/iguanajo/
277209483/
Roman bust http://www.flickr.com/photos/angerboy/532691310/
Policeman http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/12722162/
Beer http://www.flickr.com/photos/marui/460581081/
Bill of Rights http://www.flickr.com/photos/anselor/67025021/in/set-1457202/
Copyright extensions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_term.svg
Richard Stallman
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:Richard_Stallman_speaking_at_Wikimania_2005-08-07.jpg
and http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolasrolland/3063010427/sizes/s/
GNU Logo http://johnbokma.com/gnulogo.html
Mapa Open Source 2009 (Red Hat) http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrayexception/3500434664/sizes/o/
Eric Raymond http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/224766598/
Tim Berners-Lee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Berners-Lee.jpg
Linus Torvalds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Torvalds.jpeg

74. Credits - CC Licensed
Lawrence Lessig http://www.lessig.org/info/photos/
Open Source Initiative logo http://www.flickr.com/photos/27316226@N02/3000888100/sizes/o/
Street crowd http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayan_jeroen/207239822/
Wii Play packaging http://www.flickr.com/photos/20179579@N00/461808859/
Reach http://www.flickr.com/photos/kharied/486001659/
Creative Commons options http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/freedoms_license.jpg
Creative Commons logo http://www.flickr.com/photos/10243775@N05/3482370143/
FLOSS used in MS Windows http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinbekkelund/2397647179/sizes/l/
GPL street sign http://www.flickr.com/photos/svensson/45394401/
License your tweets? http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2009/09/13/cc-license-your-tweets/
GNU and FLOSS differences http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Open Content examples http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
Open Course logo http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/2412755417/

75. Government, TED and cholera slides Richard Wallis, OCLC (formerly Talis)
Credits - Fair Use of Copyright
White Blood Cells album cover by The White Stripes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_White_Stripes_-_White_Blood_Cells.jpg
Redd Blood Cells album cover by Stephen Banes http://www.reddkross.com/features/RBC/
Nine Inch Nails Web page for Ghosts I-IV http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home
ITU logo http://www.itu.int/PublishingImages/logos/ITU-official-logo_75.gif
Credits - By Permission
Linux logo by Larry Ewing <lewing@isc.tamu.edu>