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The Road to Opening Up Governmental Geospatial
Data in Taiwan
Dongpo Deng
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, the Netherlands
&Institute of Information Science
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
23rd International CODATA Conference, 28-31 Oct. 2012
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?The development of Open Data
in Taiwan
• Grassroots communities pay more attentions than governmental agencies
• Lack of high-level policy for Open Data development
• Wrong concepts: Publishing Data is Open Data
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Gov. owns the most geo-data
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Laws for Charging for Geo-Data in Taiwan
Charges and Fees Act
Article 10
Land Surveying and Mapping ActArticle 54
Standard Fee for Data of Land
Survey and Mapping
Land Use Maps and Data
Base Maps and Topographic Maps
Aerial Photo and Remote Sensing Images
Cadastre Maps
Common Version Electronic Maps
Land Surveying and Mapping Integrated Data
e-GPS Service
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Different funding models for PSI
US Internal Revenue Service,
IRS
Data producing
agency
Users and other
agencies
EU treasury and legislation
Data producing
agency
Other agencies
Users
Congress Wealth/jobs=taxes
Open data
Europe: data users pay for dataPeter Weiss, 2004. Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic Impacts, Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, pp.69-73
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Open Geo-Data• By definition of Public Common of Geographic Data
(Onsrud, 2004)
• Open domain
• cannot hold copyright by law, e.g. geo data of US Federal
• copyright has expired, e.g. Taiwan Bao Maps (over 100 years ago)
• is not subject to copyright, e.g. facts
• Open Access
• copyrighted, but use open licenses
• GPL, CC, ODbL
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4Ps to open geo data
Policy
Principle
Process
Price Policy
Principle
Process
Price
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Policies for open geo-data
• remove restrictions for accessing governmental geo-data
• remove restrictions on reuse of governmental geo-data
• use standard formats to release geo-data
• Are current laws enough? or create new legal rights to empower the public
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Principles
• Completeness
• Primary
• Timeliness
• Access
• Machine readability
• Non-proprietary
• Licensing
• Usage Costs
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The procedure of Open Governmental GeoData
1.Discover
2.Process
3.License
4.Publish
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•What data do we already have?
•What data have we been asked for?
•Is this data already public?
Discovery
Find the data
Consider Freedom of Information requests
Examine existing publications
Ask
Then
The procedure of Open Governmental GeoData
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The procedure of Open Governmental GeoData
•Are there security concerns?
•Will this data impact on privacy?
•Is this data at an appropriate level of aggregation?
Process
Sanitize
Anonymize
Aggregate
Ask
Then
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The procedure of Open Governmental GeoData
•Do we own this data?
•Do we have users’ permission to publish this data?
•How should this data be able to be reused?
License
Choose a license
Negotiate with owners
Remove 3rd-party data
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The procedure of Open Governmental GeoData
Convert data format
Describe and document
Publish to agency site, existing repository
•Should it be a dump, feed or API?
•Is documentation and metadata required?
•Is it published in an appropriate format?
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5 star (geo) open data
on the web, under open license
machine-readable data
non-proprietary format
Rdf4Map
Linked Data
identifier URI
scanned maps
online mapping
GML, KML
LinkedGeoData
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Taiwan Gazetteer
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Taiwan Geographic Name Database
Data resource:Tuesday, October 30, 2012
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RDF Triplify
Town as tgn:is_in_Town
X as geo:long
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Link to Geonames.org
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Publish
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Conclusion
• Governmental geo-data is infrastructure. Pay for using data?
• Need a Open Data Policy for opening geo-data
• Still a long way to go
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Thank you for your attention!
Question?
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