supporting open data use through active engagement (annotated version)
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Presentation from the W3C Using Open Data workshop in Brussels, June 2012 (http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/agenda). Based on this paper: http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/pmod2012_submission_5.pdf (PDF). Non-annotated version at http://www.slideshare.net/timdavies/open-data-engagement-using-open-data-w3c-workshopTRANSCRIPT
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Supporting open data use through active engagement
Tim Davies - @timdavies
General blog: http://www.timdavies.org.uk Research blog: http://www.opendataimpacts.net
Academic profile: http://ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/tgd1g11
(Most of the analysis based on a 2010 Survey of Open Government Data re-use from Data.gov.uk. Data available at http://www.opendataimpacts.net/survey/. Other elements draw on experiences from
the International Aid Transparency Initiative - see www.aidinfolabs.org)
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Supporting open data use through active engagement
Tim Davies - @timdavies
General blog: http://www.timdavies.org.uk Research blog: http://www.opendataimpacts.net
Academic profile: http://ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/tgd1g11
(Most of the analysis based on a 2010 Survey of Open Government Data re-use from Data.gov.uk. Data available at http://www.opendataimpacts.net/survey/. Other elements draw on experiences from
the International Aid Transparency Initiative - see www.aidinfolabs.org)Annotated version
(as some of the pictures only really make sense
with a few extra words...)
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Data App
The conventional analysis in open
data is that we release open data,
and we get apps...
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Data
App
Interface
Information
Fact
Data
Davies, T. (2010). Open data, democracy and public sector reform: A look at open government data use from data. gov. uk. - Accessed from http://www.opendataimpacts.net/report/
But we know that in practice open data
involves more than that. Open data
can lead to apps, interfaces,
information and reports, derived data
and access to facts...
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19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Data
App
Interface
Information
Fact
Data
Davies, T. (2010). Open data, democracy and public sector reform: A look at open government data use from data. gov. uk. - Accessed from http://www.opendataimpacts.net/report/
But we know that in practice open data
involves more than that. Open data
can lead to apps, interfaces,
information and reports, derived data
and access to facts...
Note: Each use of data involves making some normative decisions, and fixing some variables of the data with implications for ‘downstream’ re-uses of the data...
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19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
We should not forget that many uses of data will
involve simple tools. Many uses of open data to
influence policy I’ve come across involved printing
a spreadsheet out, getting round a table with key
people, and talking about it.
The highlighter pen is perhaps one of the most common data visualisation tools out there...
Data to information; data to facts
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
DataApp
Interface
InformationSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
With that luddite point made - let us take a
detailed technical look at how open data is used
to make apps and interactive interfaces
Based on the research in this paper...
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
DataApp
Interface
InformationSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
DataApp
Interface
InformationSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
Open Data
= physical artefact
= material agency
= human agency
We start with open data, but often data needs cleaning up before it can be used...
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
DataApp
Interface
InformationSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
Open Data
Cleaned Data
Improve Data Quality
= physical artefact
= material agency
= human agency
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
DataApp
Interface
InformationSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
Open Data
Cleaned Data
Improve Data Quality
API or Cleaned Data
Dump
= physical artefact
= material agency
= human agency
The cleaned up data is made
accessible through APIs or as
data dumps
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
DataApp
Interface
InformationSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
Open Data
Cleaned Data
Improve Data Quality
API or Cleaned Data
Dump
Linkable Data
Improve Contextual
Understanding
Source Code and
Configurations
Mashups & Apps
= physical artefact
= material agency
= human agency
Data is contextualised - linked to common identifiers and then source code is written, or tools are configured
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalismSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
Open Data
Cleaned Data
Improve Data Quality
API or Cleaned Data
Dump
Linkable Data
Improve Contextual
Understanding
Source Code and
Configurations
Mashups & Apps
Shared Code
Repository
Code Libraries &
Configurations
= physical artefact
= material agency
= human agency
Data is contextualised - linked to common identifiers and then source code is written, or tools are configured
Only then do we get to mashups or apps....
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalismSupporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Kuk, G., & Davies, T. (2011). The Roles of Agency and Artifacts in Assembling Open Data Complementarities. Thirty Second International Conference on Information Systems
Open Data
Cleaned Data
Improve Data Quality
API or Cleaned Data
Dump
Linkable Data
Improve Contextual
Understanding
Source Code and
Configurations
Mashups & Apps
Shared Code
Repository
Code Libraries &
Configurations
= physical artefact
= material agency
= human agency
Yet - all these stages between data and use are often invisible to
anyone visiting a data portal, to data owners, or to anyone using an
app. The sustainability of data use relies on the stability of each step
of this value chain: yet many of the artefacts along this chain get
neglected, duplicated or disappear over time.
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Open data eco-systems can get very complicated very quickly, and with
open data, finding how data is being used, and understanding the open
data eco-system is a question of engaging with the community...
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
(An aside: not all the data in these eco-
systems is from government... much of the
data that is relevant to processes of
democratic governance comes from
crowdsourcing, citizens and other institutions.)
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Key challenges in summary:
- Users of open data have diverse needs
- Effective use of open data requires more than the dataset
- The stability of ‘eco systems’ built on top of open data is hindered by the relative invisibility of the different stages
of data re-use
- Open data for policy making and governance comes from both government and from other data providers
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
A social response
★ Be demand driven
★ ★ Put data in context
★ ★ ★ Support conversa4on around data
★ ★ ★ ★ Build capacity, skills and networks
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Collaborate on data as a common resource
Inspired by ques.on from Antonio Acunda of Data.gov.uk (@diabolus). Developed with input at UKGovCamp or subsequently online from: @.mdavies; @hokulele; @anthonyzach; @jonfoster; @jagus. and @exmosis. Par.cular thanks to Jag (@jagus.) and Graham (@exmosis) for ongoing input. Drawing on the Five Stars of Open Linked Data outlined by Sir Tim Berners-‐Lee, 2010.
Five stars of open data engagement
http://www.opendataimpacts.net/engagement/
So - at UKGovCamp in January 2012 we looked to find
the social solutions to some of these challenges, and the
result was a draft ‘5 Stars of Open Data Engagement’
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
A social response
★ Be demand driven
★ ★ Put data in context
★ ★ ★ Support conversa4on around data
★ ★ ★ ★ Build capacity, skills and networks
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Collaborate on data as a common resource
Inspired by ques.on from Antonio Acunda of Data.gov.uk (@diabolus). Developed with input at UKGovCamp or subsequently online from: @.mdavies; @hokulele; @anthonyzach; @jonfoster; @jagus. and @exmosis. Par.cular thanks to Jag (@jagus.) and Graham (@exmosis) for ongoing input. Drawing on the Five Stars of Open Linked Data outlined by Sir Tim Berners-‐Lee, 2010.
Five stars of open data engagement
http://www.opendataimpacts.net/engagement/
(And the rest of slides have lots of words on, so no more need for these little notes...)
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
★ Be demand driven
• Are your choices about the data you release, how it is structured, and the tools and support provided around it based on community needs and demands?• Have you got ways of listening to people’s requests for data, and responding with open data?
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
★ ★ Put data in context
• Do you provide clear informa>on to describe that data you provide, including informa>on about frequency of updates, data formats and data quality?• Do you include qualita>ve informa>on alongside datasets such as details of how the data was created, or manuals for working with the data?• Do you link from data catalogue pages to analysis of the data that your organisa>on, or third-‐par>es, have already carried out with it, or to third-‐party tools for working with the data?
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
★ ★ ★ Support conversa4on around data
• Can people comment on datasets, or create a structured conversa>on around data to network with other data users?• Do you join the conversa>ons?• Are there easy ways to contact the individual ‘data owner’ in your organisa>on to ask them ques>ons about the data, or to get them to join the conversa>on?• Are there offline opportuni>es to have conversa>ons that involve your data?
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
★ ★ ★ ★ Build capacity, skills and networks
• Do you provide or link to tools for people to work with your datasets?• Do you provide or link to How To guidance on using open data analysis tools, so people can build their capacity and skills to interpret and use data in the ways they want to?• Do you go out into the community to run skill-‐building sessions on using data in par>cular ways, or using par>cular datasets?• Do you sponsor or engage with capacity building to help the community work with open data?
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Collaborate on data as a common resource
• Do you have feedback loops so people can help you improve your datasets?• Do you collaborate with the community to create new data resources (e.g. derived datasets)?• Do you broker or provide support to people to build and sustain useful tools and services that work with your data?• Do you work with other organisa>ons to connect up your data sources.
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
★ Be demand driven
★ ★ Put data in context
★ ★ ★ Support conversa4on around data
★ ★ ★ ★ Build capacity, skills and networks
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Collaborate on data as a common resource
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Concluding remarks
- Supporting citizen empowerment through open data needs greater attention to the engagement dimensions of open data
policy and practice;
- Research needs to engage in detail with the complex and messy practices of open data re-use, and to study open datasets within their organisational, political, social and
technical contexts;
- We need to architect open data technologies to support effective engagement, recognising the diverse and distributed
nature of open data re-use;
19 - 20 June 2012, The European Commission's Albert Borschette Conference Center, BrusselsPractical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies
Supporting open data use through active engagementWorkshop on using open data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism
Supporting open data use through active engagement
Tim Davies - @timdavies
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