CKANOpen Government Data Camp

Warsaw 2011

James Gardnerjames.gardner@okfn.org

1. Why(in the open government data

context, of course)

●Transparency agenda●FOI Requests●Pre-empt nagging from citizens

Direct benefits for government...

Biggest benefits for the consumer...

Open Data Lets You Get Answers to Questions

What was the concentration

of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere

10,000 years ago?

Open Data Lets You Get Answers to Questions

Consumer Business Government

Improvement and Economic Benefits

Analyse the data found Google Refine R Statistics OpenOffice Calc (Spreadsheet)

A World of Open Data Built on Open

Source

Gold Prices

Gold Prices

Apps

Apps

Apps

Benefits of CKAN for Government

● Provides a platform for government to publish and maintain information about their data

● Allows all the data to be grouped in one place so that it can be found by the public, other government departments, scientists, institutions etc

● Makes it possible for communities to form - armchair auditors, data journalists and interested parties can collaborate

CKAN is open source software

PublishFind

Collaborate

Summary...

2. Features

Publishing

Geospatial

Rich APIExample:

curl http://thedatahub.org/api/rest/dataset/gold-prices

● Also the Logic Layer● Harvesting (Discovery Metadata Service)

Everyone is

different

3. Ecosystem

4. Who

CKAN instances around the world

Data.gov.uk

5. Team 6. Questions7. Workshop

james.gardner@okfn.orgtwitter: @ckanproject

7. Workshop2pm this afternoon

● Install CKAN on EC2 or your dev

machine● Set up Extensions● Customise the theme

+ Whatever else you want us to show you or help with

Attributions

● http://www.flickr.com/photos/ameninadosolhos/2262384558/sizes/l/in/photostream/