Introduction
& Research


Jeni Tennison jeni@theodi.org @JeniT

Tom Heath tom.heath@theodi.org @tommyh

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Timeline

  • December 2011: announced
  • March 2012: funding starts
  • October 2012: executive team in place
  • December 2012: ministerial launch

Funding & Support

  • £10m over 5 years from TSB
    • matched funding commitment
  • underwritten by Southampton University
  • £500k from Omidyar Network
    • from November 2012

Funding & Support

  • income from:
    • membership
    • training
    • professional services
  • philanthropic funding
  • research funding

Focus

  • unlocking supply
  • unlocking demand
  • communicating value

Incubation Programme

  • supporting startups
  • space & mentoring
  • connnections
  • 7 so far

Immersion Programme

  • Data Strategy Board funding
  • managing £750k programme
  • three themes this year
    • Crime & Justice
    • Energy & Environment
    • Midata

Immersion Programme

  • extended hackathon
  • invention day focused on problem
  • some months to work
  • innovation weekend with prize
  • follow-up 6 months later

Training Programme

  • public courses:
    • Open Data in Practice (5 days)
    • Data Journalism (1 day)
    • Open Data, Law and Licensing (1/2 day)
  • in-house training
  • Postgraduate Certificate (2014)

Open Data Certificates

  • set standard for open data publishing
  • emphasise reuser requirements
  • help publishers get better

Research at the ODI

  • very new, still forming
  • building capability at the ODI
  • forging strong collaborations in the UK and overseas

Research Context

  • a changing relationship with data
  • expectation of answers to (previously) unanswerable questions
  • proactive, not reactive, data services
  • the Web is still the medium

Current Research

  • what are the best practices for publishing Big (Open) Data?
  • how are data sets described on the Web?
  • how can we best extract (and aggregate) these descriptions?

Upcoming Research

  • monitoring and analytics for open data deployment across Europe
  • radically simplifying the consumption of open data by small businesses

Future (Technical)
Directions

  • automated data discovery
  • data set profiling, specialised indexing
  • real-time data integration for ad-hoc analytics
    • variety at least as challenging as volume or velocity
  • aside: creating a positive feedback loop for publishers of open research data

Questions?



Jeni Tennison jeni@theodi.org @JeniT

Tom Heath tom.heath@theodi.org @tommyh


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