This document discusses open data in island and remote communities. It describes challenges communities like Tiree face in accessing and using open data due to their small size and remoteness. It then outlines the ODIC (Open Data Islands and Communities) project which aims to improve data flows within communities, from communities to the wider world, and between communities, in order to empower communities and improve the availability and quality of open data. Key research challenges around working with small, heterogeneous datasets in disconnected areas are also mentioned.
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SICSA : Open Data Islands and Communities
1. Open Data
Islands and Communities
Alan Dix
Talis and University of Birmingham
http://alandix.com/academic/talks/SICSA-2016/
http://tireetechwave.org/odic/
EPCGI’2016
Covilhã, Portugal
HCI All Hands 2016
3. today I am not talking about …
• intelligent internet interfaces
• visualisation and sampling
• small device – large display interactions
• fun and games, virtual crackers,
artistic performance, slow time
• physicality and product design
• creativity and Bad Ideas
• modelling dream, regret,
the emergence of self
4. … or even lots of lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
5. REF !!!
… and certainly not to mention …
UK University Research
Assessment Exercise
6. I am talking about
digital technology
data
margins – geographic, social, economic
7. HCI trends
Open Data
Tiree an island community
Alan Walks Wales
Tiree Projects
Open Data redux
ODIC data flows
8. HCI trends
Open Data
Tiree an island community
Alan Walks Wales
Tiree Projects
Open Data redux
ODIC data flows
31. Welsh Coast Path
opened May 2012
linking existing paths
a single way marked route
with Offa’s Dyke encircles Wales
three full traversals in 2012 (one running)
32. vision
personal
encircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,
practical
IT for the walker & IT for local communities
philosophical
reflections on walking and space, locality and identity
research
personal agenda and living lab
34. data
location
GPX ... batteries ... sporadic signals ....
bio-sensing
ECG (heart), EDA (skin) and accelerometers
audio and images
in the moment
text
after the event
implicit
explicit
35. always connected?
mobile signal
absent or weak
broadband ...
not so broad
masts point to sea
not land ...
yachts = money
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
41. island projects – slow research
Frasan - mobile heritage app
OnSupply – renewable energy awareness
Projected touch-table
TireeConnect – island communication
gossip is not enough!
TireeDashboard
General pattern
understand – act – reflect
… takes time
53. “I don’t know if any public sector
has necessarily cracked the nut on
attracting the right skills and capabilities,”
…
“The commercial sector has, because
they’ve got the dollars to spend.”
(Ian Bartram, Gartner)
54. how can small communities find,
access, and visualise, open data?
61. ODIC data flows
from community to world
Community
groups and individuals
rest of
the world
1
• visibility and
control
• identity and
empowerment
• level of detail
• local knowledge
62. ODIC data flows
from world to community
Community
groups and individuals
rest of
the world
2 • making the most
of open data
• local decision
making
• lobbying and
negotiation
63. ODIC data flows
within the community
Community
groups and individuals
3
• gossip is not enough!
• sparse, dispersed population
• social cohesion and economic benefits
64. ODIC data flows
between communities
Community
groups and individuals
other
communities
4
• sharing best practice
• brand presence
• interlinked data
65. benefits to …
the community
empowerment and control
availability of information
communication within and between communities
the world
improved quality of data
level of detail of data
local knowledge and understanding
66. research challenges
multiple heterogeneous datasets
the long tail of small data
algorithmics of and design for disconnection
end-user visualisation and data manipulation
community engagement
67. who can make a difference?
Google won’t do it all
other places
Wales data
flexible data
anything else