Open^3

WTF is the
Open Data Institute?

• non-profit, non-partisan
• founded 2012 by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt
• "helping others be successful with open data"
• economic, social and environmental value

WTF is
open data?

Open data is information that is available for anyone to use, for any purpose,
at no cost.

• open data
  must have have a licence to say it is open
• the license
  may impose some constraints:
  attribution and/or share-alike

A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

So What?

Good Open Data

• can be linked to
  so that it can be easily shared and talked about
• is available in a standard, structured format
  so that it can be easily processed
• has guaranteed availability and consistency over time
  so that others can rely on it
• is traceable, through any processing
  so others can work out whether to trust it

Open Data Certificates

legal, technical,
social, practical...

The ODI: Redux

• non-profit, non-partisan
• founded 2012 by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt
• multiple funding sources
• "helping others be successful with open data"

• incubating startups
• training
• community building
• research and policy
• software and service development

Where's the Ruby to?

Open Development
at the ODI

ODI Tech Team

• started January 2013
• mixture of skills
  data science
  statistics
  public data
  devops
  engineering
  
• building tools for open data
• showing best practice
• open culture in code

Open By Default

• encourage public engagement
• plan in the open
• comments, forks, contributions

There are more good ideas in the world than there are in the ODI

... being Open By Default is exhilarating. But I suspect that streaking at a cricket match is exhilarating, too. And sometimes it does feel like we're running around naked...

Borrow Mercilessly

• We will build on other's work
• Avoid reinvention
• Focus efforts into new areas
• Contribute back
• Show appreciation for what others have done

Experiment and Learn

• Try new tools and ways of working
• Reflect continuously on what works
• Adapt to suit, or move on
• Continuous improvement

Share Everything

• Document and discuss experiences
• Create reusable components
  • Eat your own dogfood
• Share learning to help others

Be Ourselves

• We are all individuals
• We work as a team and in a community because we have common purpose
• Express individual opinions, considerately.

Practicalities

• Agile Approach
• Open Tools
• Open Communication
• Open Collaboration

Open Tools

Robots

All watched over by machines of loving grace

Open Communication

Working In The Open

• stops us cutting corners
• catches more mistakes
• gives better results
• helps us find collaborators
• gives something back
• is fun!

Open Data Institute Tech Team
@ukoditech
info@theodi.org
irc.freenode.net #theodi

http://theodi.github.io/presentations