Presentation by Sander van der Waal and Christian Villum from the Open Knowledge Foundation

1. A one-stop shop for Open
Government Data: publicdata.eu
- improved with social features and more linked data sets
www.ckan.org
www.okfn.org

2. The Open Knowledge Foundation
We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting
openness in all its forms (data + content)
We build:
Communities
+
Tools

3. What does open mean?
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and share-alike.
http://opendefinition.org/

6. EC Working Group
DCAT application profile
for data portals in Europe

7. DCIP (version 0.2)
Protocol to work with DCAT
spec.datacatalogs.org

8. Built on CKAN 2.0 beta
(ckan.org)
Open source data portal software that
makes it easy to publish, share and find data.

9. publicdata.eu
in use

11. Numerous social and community features
• Profiles
• Activity streams
• Follow support
• Commenting
• Sharing with Twitter
/ Facebook

12. ...supporting Semantic Web (RDF)

13. Data explorer allows filtering, editing, plotting,
graphing and embedding

14. CKAN resource preview can plot data on a map
using Latitude and Longitude or GeoJSON

15. Resource view page - data explorer graph view

16. traintimes.org.uk
energy.publicdata.eu

18. info@publicdata.eu
Thank you!
Sander van der Waal
@okfn
gplus.to/okf
sander.vanderwaal@okfn.org
Christian Villum
christian.villum@okfn.org
OKFNetwork
okfn.org
www.okfn.org