Open Knowledge Conference

Data All the Way Down

Making data open does not necessarily make it usable. The vast majority of useful data is complex and needs context to be understood, such as explanatory text, navigational paths and interactive visualisations. Conversely, focusing purely on the end user’s experience of the data prevents reusers from exploring, analysing and presenting the underlying data in novel ways. How can we build rich user interfaces while supporting data reusers? This talk focuses on the experience of building legislation.gov.uk and providing government organograms to illustrate the power of layering data access underneath rich user interfaces.

by Jeni Tennison on July 1st at 15:30 in Track I

Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant currently contracted to The Stationary Office (TSO) in the UK. She specialises in XML-related and linked data with forays into client-side development. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a PhD in collaborative ontology development. Jeni has worked with TSO and the UK National Archives on legislation.gov.uk, on applying RDFa to the London Gazette and on the linked data aspects of data.gov.uk. She is author of several books including “Beginning XSLT 2.0” (Apress, 2005), was an invited expert on the XSL and XML Processing Working Groups at the W3C and has recently been appointed to the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group.