Sg2009wc:democ
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Title: Democratizing Data
Session: 4-G Bay Area Jan 2009
Convener:Julie Delany
Note Taker:Barbara Haven
Attendees:
- Julie Delany
- Liz Dizon
- Lisa Ballard
- Jessica Nussbaum
- Aminie Elsberry
- Riya Suising
- Daniela Barbosa
- Kirrily Robert
- Kennita Watson
- Kathy Lass
- Barbara Haren
- Saki Bailey
- Joanna Scott
- Marcia Knous
Notes:
Book of the same name from O'Reilly Media
Democratizing Data
By W. David Stephenson
ISBN: 9780596157982
July publishing planned
- Deals with making data automatically available based on role and responsibility
- Structure data based on XML, KML, etc.
- As widely usable as possible, real-time
- Available through syndication
Washington D.C. government:Allows people to subscribe. Apps for democracy produces more cost saving than any other initiative.
Rebuilding public confidence through transparency: motto they used: Don't trust us track us.
Q. Was this about government data, or all types of data more widely shared.
A. Book about getting your enterprise more transparent
LOD in semantic web community
Q. Each enterprise could have a node in this structure
A. Collection of nodes with connections. Define nodes and their connections
Comment: There's data the government produces, and also produced by enterprises and non-profits. Need to resolve conflicts and some "forcing" or encouraging making data public, Organizations may gain something for opening up.
Meta data and actual data both have openness issues--sometimes organizations publish only one or the other.
Julie shared:
@cheeky_geeky
@levyj (EPA's social media manager)
@druidsmith
Government 2.0 Camp http://barcamp.org/Government20Camp
Transparency Camp: https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/TransparencyCamp
Obama memorandum: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/
(end Julie's whiteboard)
Portability of health records
Can be so much that you can know anything about people, and that will require educating people about their data and privacy.
Q. Vendor selling social network data that acquire from user/consumers that don't understand what they are giving their data to.
CTO mentioned the Washington D.C. Open Public Square: create your own applications and dashboards.
[infochimp.org infochip.org] Collecting information, was inviting data nerds to try this out
Federal data must be available in public domain: [public.resource.org public.resource.org]
Geo-data available for free
Amazon has made some large data sources available. There you get access to some large data sets like census.
Licensing will define some availability, and have copies and distribute it around.
Contest for Washington D.C. applications using data. Submit strategies: Apps For Democracy
One winner was Crimefinder similar to http://everyblock.com, which has gone open source.
Amazon EC3 puts large databases "in their cloud", from FreeBase.com (?) Charges for cycles for use such as for big statistical processing.
Q. Which data does Federal government make available: A. NASA data among others