The Power of Open Data

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The Power of Open Data Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D. CTO, Kynetx www.windley.com

Is your gas pump accurate? How do you know?

Where is the inspection data? Johanna Kirk, Deseret News Unfortunately, not online...

The Deseret News built an app... 2003 Deseret News Publishing Company

The Deseret News built an app... FA IL! ! 2003 Deseret News Publishing Company

We don’t need the Department of Agriculture to build the Web application...

We just need them to make the data available so we can!

Here’s an example...

Tired of buying books on Amazon? so was Jon Udell...

Is the book in the local library?

Library lookup... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0738206679

Library lookup... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0738206679

Library lookup... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 0738206679 http://ksclib.keene.edu/search/a?searcharg=

Library lookup... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ http://ksclib.keene.edu/search/a?searcharg= 0738206679

Library lookup... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ http://ksclib.keene.edu/search/a?searcharg= 0738206679

With a simple Javascript bookmarklet, Jon was able to mashup two independent Web sites

What made this possible?

Both systems referenced resources using meaningful URLS

Small, scripted aggregations lead to serendipitous applications

This is the power of open data

Two forces are making open data important...

Disaggregation is the new norm

Yahoo! is a “portal”

“Portal for the Global Pet Food Industry”

Web sites are cleaving along functional lines

Just blog comments...

Integrated on my blog

Integrated on my blog

Just events...

Integrated on the IIW site

Integrated on the IIW site

Here’s another cool word: “deperimeterization”

Mommy, I’m scared of the outside world!

Constantinople City Wall

Fairs

Trebuchet, B. Windley

Markets

Which provided more ...

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