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title: Open Data, Benefits and Risks
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author: Dr David Tarrant
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	<h2>Course Topics</h2>
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	<h2>Overview</h2>
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		<li style="margin-left: 120px;">Defining open data</li>
		<li style="margin-left: 240px;">Benefits</li>
		<li style="margin-left: 360px;">Open, closed and personal data</li>
		<li style="margin-left: 480px;">5-Star Data</li>
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	<h2>Exercise</h2>
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	What is Data?
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	<h2>Exercise</h2>
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	What is Open Data?
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	<impact>Data is the raw material of the new industrial revolution
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	<smallest style="float: right;"> - Francis Maude MP</smallest>
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	<h2>Justifications</h2>
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			<th>Left wing</th>
			<th>Right wing</th>
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			Trust and Transparency
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			&nbsp;
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			Enabling the economy
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			&nbsp;
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	<h2>MPs Expenses</h2>
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	<h2>McKinsey Report</h2>
	<p style="font-style: italic;">‘$3 trillion potential annual value enabled by open data in seven domains…. Value can arise in a number of ways, including equipping workers with the skills to raise productivity, allowing marketers to micro-segment populations more successfully, and boosting performance across segments by sharing benchmarks, market data, and best practice information…’</p>
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	<p>Open Data: Unlocking performance with innovation and liquid information / Oct 2013</p>
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	<h2>EU Benefit</h2>
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	<li>140bn euro per year benefit in EU</li>
	<li>Cutting transaction costs</li>
	<li>More Jobs</li>
	<li>More consumers</li>
	</ul>
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	<p style="font-size: 0.6em"><a href="http://epsiplatform.eu/content/review-psi-re-use-studies-published">http://epsiplatform.eu/content/review-psi-re-use-studies-published</a></p>
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	<h2>Exercise</h2>
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	What makes data usable?
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	<h2>Guidelines</h2>
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		<img src="images/best_practice_guidelines/image42.png" width="90%" style="border: 0;" alt="Open Data Certificate"></img>
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		<img src="images/best_practice_guidelines/stars.png" width="90%" style="border: 0;" alt="5 Stars"><br/>5 Stars</img>
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	<h2>5-Stars</h2>
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		<img src="images/best_practice_guidelines/image43.png" style="border: 0;" alt="5 Stars"></img>
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	<p style="text-align:center; font-size: smaller;"><a target="_blank" href="http://5stardata.info">http://5stardata.info</a></p>
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	<h2>5 Stars</h2>
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		<td width="20%" style="text-align: right; color: #ffd646;">&#9733;</td>
		<td>Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open licence, to be Open Data</td>
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		<td style="text-align: right; color: #ffd646;">&#9733; &#9733;</td>
		<td>Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)</td>
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		<td style="text-align: right; color: #ffd646;">&#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</td>
		<td>as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)</td>
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		<td style="text-align: right; color: #ffd646;">&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</td>
		<td>All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff</td>
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		<td style="text-align: right; color: #ffd646;">&#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</td>
		<td>All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context</td>
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	<impact>Law and Licensing<br/><small style="font-size: 32px;">
	(please note, I am not a lawyer and this section should not be treated as legal advice)</small></impact>
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	<h2>Open Government Licence (OGL)</h2>
	<figure style="text-align: center"><img src="images/quick_law/image36.png" height="500px" alt="The Open Government Licence"></img></figure>
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	<h2>Other Licences</h2>
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	<figure style="text-align: center"><img src="images/quick_law/cc4.png" height="150px" alt="Creative Commons 4"></img></figure>
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	<figure style="text-align: center"><img src="images/quick_law/image38.png" height="150px" alt="ODbL"></img><br/>Open Database Licence</figure>
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	<h2>Re-Mixing</h2>
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	<h2>Exercise 1</h2>
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	Locate a number of diference sources of open data and pick one dataset from each. Then:
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	<li>Identify which star rating the dataset is.</li>
	<li>What license is the dataset available under?</li>
	<li>Is the dataset usable? Is it consistant?</li>
	<li>What questions could you answer using the data?</li>
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	<h2>Exercise 2</h2>
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	<li>Over the weekend, update your ECS profile (people page).</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/username">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/username</a></li>
	<li>Then look at the data representation and see how many data links you can follow.</li>
	<li>P.S. Do not change you display name to professor, or put a &lt;script&gt; tag in your name. It is only funny the first time!</li>
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