[open-government] Metadata and portal interoperability is the new open data black!

Wed Oct 26 09:22:28 UTC 2011

I agree with you Tracey...
It is the next...

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Le 2011-10-25 18:02, Tracey P. Lauriault a écrit :
> It is great to see that the Open Data gathering in Warsaw has metadata 
> and interoperabilityon its wish list 
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/10/23/open-data-wishlist-for-the-next-year/.
> This conversation began in Ottawa Last week at Gtec. I convened a 
> small meeting with Edmonton and Ottawa, a science data researcher, the 
> founders of the data liberation initiative (DLI) 
> (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-idd/dli-idd-eng.htm), the creators of 
> ODESI (http://search2.odesi.ca/), and members of the IASSIST Executive 
> (IASSISTdata.org) to discuss scaling, interoperability and metadata.  
> This was well received and we have agreed to introduce local data 
> library experts to members of the G4 in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa 
> and Toronto.  Librarians & archivists manage thousands of datasets, 
> curate them, deposit them in repositories, describe them with common 
> metadata and create portals that harvest the metadata from other 
> portals in order to expand cross institutional searching.  Librarians 
> and geomaticians have been doing this for decades and doing it well.  
> The recommendation is for open data initiatives to team up with these 
> experts and collaborate on developing common standards.
> Current open data catalogs in cities in Canada will soon face a 
> scaling issue as the number of datasets contained within them grow, 
> and without common metadata amd adherance to interoperability 
> standards, it will not be possible to seach across them or to create a 
> federated cataloguing system where metadata can be harvested.
> ODESI has done that, and there is 15 years experience in getting 10s 
> of thousands of data sets searched across Ontario University Data 
> Libraries.  The *UK Data Archive* is another great example 
> (www.data-*archive*.ac.uk/ <http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/>). In 
> addition, the Open Geospatial Consortium 
> (http://www.opengeospatial.org/) has been instrumental at developing 
> test beds and interoperability specifications for geospatial data and 
> there is tremendous merit in working with them.
> ODESI, DLI, UK Data Archive and OGC are excellent examples upon which 
> open data initiatives can build upon instead of reinventing wheels.  
> Some great cross polination can happen and there are some tremendous 
> learning opportunities to be had on all sides.
> I look forward to seeing those discussions move ahead in Canada and 
> Internationally.
> One point I would add is *capacity building,* and the DLI as well as 
> the Community Data Consortium 
> (www.*communitydata*-donneescommunautaires.ca/Home 
> <http://donneescommunautaires.ca/Home>) have that in place for 
> universities and for community based organizations while the UK Data 
> Archive has great resources on their websidte and it would be great to 
> see some open data apps developers collaborate with subject matter 
> specialists in other fields that are less tech savvy but increadibly 
> innovative in their capacity to deliver services and do community 
> based research.  Social Planning Councils who are great community 
> based researchers have also been working on this capacity building 
> piece and there is merit in working with them.  Finally, there is 
> *Community Data Canada* which has convened  a number of roundtables 
> with various levels of government and departments at the Federal 
> government with community groups(http://www.cdc-dcc.info/).  This 
> group is also involved at bridging community groups and government 
> institutions in terms of data access and use.
> *To the 10 principles 
> (http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/) I 
> would add*:
>
>   * Metadata
>   * Interoperability
>   * Organizational Cultural Change
>   * Capacity Building
>
> Cheers
> Tracey
>
>
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