[FOSS4G2016] Key Topics: open data

[Christian Willmes]

Hi,

Open Data is obviously strongly related to FOSS4G and should be 
emphasized at the conference.

I share the observation, that Open Data is most of the time related to 
data published to the public by governments and NGO's, but I also have 
two more important aspects:

1. the data that is published out of academia to the public (huge 
amounts of data, very heterogeneously published, to a major extend under 
serious copyright constraints applied by publishing houses, lots of work 
to do here for improving the situation),
2. the pure technical aspect of Open Data, such as infrastructures, 
standards, formats and interfaces (more or less the OGC realm) and in 
this sense additionally and especially the Open Data 5 Star 
classification by Tim Berners-Lee (and the W3C): http://5stardata.info/

Cheers and happy new Year!
Christian

On 28.12.2015 16:22, Steven Feldman wrote:
> Pretty much the same in the UK. OpenData is a good theme or topic for a FOSS4G, it can include OSM and other activity as well
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> Steven
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>> On 28 Dec 2015, at 15:06, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) <gert-jan at osgeo.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi LOClist,
>>
>> In order to finalize our key topics (before 7th January!) list I'd like to know your opinion on "open data" as one of the key topics.
>> My perspective is mainly dutch, and in Holland I notice a few things:
>> 1) "open data" in mainly a "geospatial data" topic (by the way: same goed for "linked data")
>> 2) "open data" is mainly regarded as data provided by governments
>> 3) the "open data"-community and the FOSS4G communities have a very large overlap
>>
>> I was wondering if the situation in others countries (especially the D-A-CH) in comparable to the Netherlands.
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>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> GJ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> till.adams at fossgis.de schreef op 18-12-2015 15:25:
>>> Hi list!
>>> I just finished the minutes for our yesrterday IRC chat here:
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes#Agenda
>>> For those, who don't read the minutes, one important point here (;-)):
>>> In order to get PR&M in motion we need contents, as we do not have
>>> program contents until may, we need to fix keynoters and also
>>> key-topics, which then should be stressed by a keynote as early as
>>> possible. Until now, we made some efforts in this direction, but it
>>> didn't work correctly.
>>> Yesterday we decided the following:
>>> 1. Key Topics must be fixed until 7th of January 2016
>>> 2. Proposed topics up to now are:
>>> -Remote Sensing/Copernikus
>>> -Open Data
>>> -Land Information
>>> List is here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2016_Key_Topics
>>> topics also discussed here: http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/64  -
>>> there are several more named key-topics, mostly derived from former
>>> conferences like Development, Use, Big Data/Open Data, SDI, 3D/SfM,
>>> Web, Standards, also we discussed about CMS.
>>> I suggest also the following:
>>> - at least we shouldn't have more than 4-5 key-topics. I think 4 is a
>>> good number, remember, we time for around 6 keynotes in general.
>>> - for every key topic, there is one LOC-person in power, that
>>> "manages" this key topic. Means planning all activities like keynotes,
>>> workshops, topic-talks and so on related to this key-topic.
>>> - as I already started lots of effort in direction of remote
>>> sensing/Copernikus I would take the hat for this key-topic.
>>> Please comment on the latter!
>>> Till
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