1. Open Data at CSTMC Primer and Discussion
July 24, 2014

2. Agenda What is Open Data The GoC Open Data Portal What is involved?
Open Data community
What are the possibilities?
Discussion

3. What is open data?
Open Data is a philosophy and practice that makes data easily available in order to enable re-use of the data in new and unforeseen ways. Open Data relies on
a permissive licensing model that encourages re-use,
data discoverability, and
data accessibility.

4. Key aspects of Open Data
Discoverable
appropriate metadata, portals
Reusable
non-restrictive licenses, generous rights, no policy constraints
Computable
machine-readable, raw data
Standard
platform-independent open formats e.g. XML

5. Human-readable

6. Machine readable

7. “Community” turns data into something useful…

8. Community engagement is critical
People need to know about the data
Generate interest
Local and national communities
Open Data Ottawa
Learn Hack YOW
Social media (twitter, tumbler, etc.)
#OpenGovCan, #OpenDataOttawa
Hackathons
CODE national hackathon, #Apps4Billions,
More research needed on Communities: what events, what groups, who to follow and engage, hash tags, etc…

9. GoC Open Data Portal

11. LAC Data Sets

12. Why participate in the GoC portal?
Single federal access point
Visibility
Federal efforts to engage communities
E.g. CODE national hackathon event
Active participation in federal Open Government and Open Science agenda

13. Open Science and Culture
Open Data
Provide access on Web and GC Open Data Portal
Engage Open Data Community
Universities, private sector, high schools, community networks
Access to collections, research and experts
Collection catalogues, curators corner, curator blogs
Open Collection
"From The Vault," Doors Open, collection tours
Publish accessions, deaccessions
Accessible for all
Accessibility, Universal (inclusive) design
Transparent

14. Process Identify and select data sets Add dataset to data.gc.ca
Send approval from departmental IMSO
Post the data sets live

15. Where data resides data.gc.ca techno-science.ca Dataset
Publish data set
Metadata
Pointer to resources
Data dictionary
Images

16. Open Government license

17. Opportunities Structured Data Examples
Anything that is in a database or spreadsheet
Records with fields; rows and columns
Examples
Collections Data
Artifacts
Library
Catalogued archives

18. Preliminary Action Plan
How it works, forge contacts (July 2014)
Gather and engage Open Data action team (July 2014)
Select initial data sets (July 2014)
Export/prepare data (August 2014)
Review Open Data license and "official" approval (August 2014)
Publish data (September 2014)
Develop community engagement plan (August-September 2014)
Launch (October 2014)
Review and plan next steps (November 2014)