Keynote: Open data as business model
How do governments curate, manage and maintain high quality public datasets, as budgets tighten? The traditional answer has been to secure revenue through commercial licensing of value-added data. Public information holders develop income streams, which can then be used to maintain or improve core data assets. Both the successes and frictions of this approach are well documented. This talk will assess whether open data offers an alternative business model – one where public and private can collaborate around open public data, freely available to all, to use and exploit. Does “open data” offer a new business model for public sector information holders? Is the private sector willing to invest in the data they need and use? If they are, what does it then take to make data open for re-use? What do public data holders need to do a) to make their data open, b) to unlock collaboration with others. What are the issues, in terms of community engagement and governance, or completeness, quality and timeliness of data? The talk will put theoretical considerations into a practical context with examples of projects across different parts of the public sector. It will look at strategies that enable re-use, such as creating APIs or using Linked Data standards, and the questions of quality and provenance, relating these considerations back to the central theme of “open data as business model”.
by John Sheridan on July 1st at 14:00 in Track I
John Sheridan is speaking at OKCon in a personal capacity. He is employed as a Civil Servant working for the UK Government, where he is Head of Legislation Services at The [UK] National Archives. John is responsible for legislation.gov.uk, a linked data statute book and major online public service. He was also the Linked Data lead for data.gov.uk. John’s experience ranges across a range of policy and technology issues with open government data. John is a former co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium’s e-Government Interest Group and will be an active participant in the upcoming W3C Government Linked Data Working Group. He has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Southampton and a Masters Degree in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool.
Rufus Pollock
Daniel Dietrich
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Hauke Gierow
Hello,
This is a really interesting topic.
Would it be possible to get access to this presentation? Video or pdf?
Thank you very much.
Deven