Socially Open Dataicw Technically Open / Legally
Open
tonzijlstra.euknowledge work, learning, social media
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Social is the ‘complexity’ bit
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No familiar organizational structure
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Networked life, networked work, networked learning
Costs too much; Whatʼs the business case; Has commercial value; Possible privacy issues; Confidential info; Itʼs not ours, and we donʼt know who owns it; Itʼs not ours and supplier wonʼt allow it; The quality isnʼt very good; We donʼt know where it is; Not our job; Itʼs in a useless format anyway; I donʼt have the authority; People will misuse the data; People will use it wrongly; Only we understand our data; Weʼll get sued; Files are just too big; Too little bandwith; It starts with this, but whereʼs the end? Itʼs there, but canʼt be opened; Data is dated/too old; Itʼs not in digital format; Is this even legal?; Our Minister says no; We never have done this before, why start now?; I donʼt see the use; Nobody will be interested; No time; No resources; Just do FOIA requests; Weʼll publish it redacted; Itʼs not complete; It contains errors; Itʼs commercially sensitive; Combining this with other data is dangerous; People will come to wrong conclusions; People will get lost and confused; It will trigger endless discussions; We canʼt confirm or deny we have that data; Weʼll get feedback, and canʼt handle that; Our IT supplier says itʼs not possible; Our IT supplier will charge too much; Our site will crash; Itʼs already online! (but in unfindable PDFs); If people download it and use it later it will be outdated; I canʼt take responsibility for all the reuse; People will get angry; Our data is in contradiction to the data of the department that is in charge of the topic; Only we truly understand.....statistics/meteo/geo/laws); Weʼll disrupt the market; It will only be used to attack us.
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Socially open = just add context
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Some simple starting points?
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Add contextual info as metadata:
Contact personFeedback addressWhat was it used for and how?When generated and when? next update?
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Make stuff findable:
PointersDo PR for your dataAnnounce in relevant environmentsAdd to data.yourgov.yourtld
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Solve ‘issues’ by adding social context:
Talk to re-users / name themTalk to those the data describes / name themMake release process transparent
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This is where the mindset change takes hold
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CreditsAll photos: Ton Zijlstra, by nc saExcept where mentioned on the photo.
Slides: http://slideshare.net/tonzijlstraBlog: http://zylstra.org/blogContact: [email protected]: ton_zylstra
tonzijlstra.euknowledge work, learning, social media
donderdag 18 november 2010