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"Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness)."
- Summary of Open Definition
data • data.dc.gov, data.gov.uk
art • Freer Sackler Museum collections, DC Public Library archives
research • arXiv.org, Public Library of Science
code • civic tech and government on GitHub, Google machine learning library
laws (Maryland state code)
formats (CSV, XML, JSON, HTML)
frameworks (Bootstrap, Django, Ruby on Rails)
- allows dialogue + collaboration
- often free or cheap
- helps us build on and not just re-build
- can be improved upon
funded by the public
build things for the public
governments face many of the same problems everywhere
- 311 system
- school lotteries
- budget data
- maps of infrastructure
- data portal
before you build
- think deeply about your problem
- do your user research
- figure out who else is working on this problem
- determine if you can copy or build on their work
building
- build in the open whenever possible
- tell other people what you're working on
- apply an open license
- adopt open standards
- document your work
next steps
- contribute back
- make it reusable
- tell everyone!