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10 REASONS
JOURNALISM+
OPEN DATA (& APPROACHES) =
GREAT
THE OPEN KNOWLEDGE
FOUNDATION
FROMhello
WE BELIEVE IN THE
POWEROFOpen.
THE OPEN DEFINITIONdefines ‘openness’ as the FREEDOM to use, re-use and redistribute without technicalor legal restrictions.
opendefinition.org
what isDATA
JOURNALISM?(and why does OKFN care? )
THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS DATA JOURNALISMImage: Plenty R. (Via Flickr)
• tool: ddj handbook (lucy’s slide)
A RESOURCE FORjournalists.
Treating data as a sourceNew ways of getting dataUnderstanding & working with dataNew ways of delivering data
10 REASONS
JOURNOS+
OPEN DATA (& APPROACHES) =
GREAT
1. It’s already out there
2. It’s not always good - (you can improve it)
3. Sometimes you are best placed to put it together (i.e. not governments)
4. OR No-one has ever collected it before...
FOI Requests
Scraping
Portals
5. You’ve got the tools (and they work)
6. Sometimes open resources are actually better
7. Those releasing the data don’t know what you’ll do with it
8. The data needs YOU
9. Your readers need you
Journalist Coder/DataGeek
Othere.g. academic
DataJournalist
10. Someone has probably already solved your problem
what’s NEW...?
Crowdcrafting.org
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CONTACT
@okfnokfn.org