...Að hafa spillinguna gagnsæja og á yfirborðinu – Jón Gnárr

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Presentación para BetaBeersGRX Noviembre

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She's there because she's nanot from here and does not know when they come and go, but there's so little people because bus schedules are transparent and published. The whole point of transparency is giving you peace of mind through the information government, utilities and other public and maybe private companies provide (or should provide).
This is what we usually have: politicians taking decisions, promising things, telling us stuff. But his jacket is closed, there's nothing written down and we want them to become something like this. BTW, this could be us, at the university.
You need usually a little push to become transparent, in the form of transparency laws or citizens asking for it. Either way, most organizations don't feel the need, or even think about the possibility, of becoming transparent.
This is what we have initially: documents in different formats, even scanned paper, all over the place. Piles of them. Some of them under tables, in drawers, made out of thin air. We don't know how much stuff there is
This is what we want to have eventually
This is first step, cold-call people asking for documents. What kind of documents? All data in an organism that's already there and ready, of course. But also recommendations from the Open Knowledge Foundation and country and organism-specific organizations, as well as the local law.
Perl amasa los datos. You have to do a bit of data munging and massaging first if data is not already in a format the can be consumed.

⎙ ➭ Python, Perl, Ruby, Javascript, R ➭ ☺

We talk about 5 stars of open data for 5 characteristics, which add up: 1 for being available with an open license, 2 for being available and workable as structured data, you can do stuff with it, 3 for being in an open format, usually CSV or OpenDocument, 4th star adds a permanent URI and 5th star is open linked data, with data that can be merged from different sources via semantical markup like RDF

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Male names in Iceland are 1-star example... barely, because the license is not explicit. They mention "source sould be referenced", but that's it, nothing about transformation copyright or anything else.

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This would be 2 star, although there is some XML which has to be parsed as text anyway. In fact, with "text" you can actually download it as CSV, giving it 3 star (except for the license, of course).
CKAN stores data. Other DMS are Datastore, but not even half as popular. All of them are, of course, open source systems that you can install on your own or you can use as a service from many providers.

Y lo ponemos en opendata.ugr.es

. But you have to go a step further to create transparency.
We use this transparente.ugr.es to actually present the data to the public (and to ourselves).

node.js

This is the setup we're using for our transparency website.

Free/libre software!

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This is what we would like to have in the future, add more stars here. This allows connection between different open data sources and the creation of rich, citizen-based, free software, applications for making your life easier.

...Að hafa spillinguna gagnsæja og á yfirborðinu

Jón Gnárr

Transparency is not a silver bullet, it helps for many things, but you can still hide some stuff.

Trapsarency

Like this window on a very black house, transparency can give the impresion of cleanlines, seeing through, honesty, but in fact you are showing only what you wish. It's the responsability of the citizen hacker to tear down the walls and open all the windows so that they, eventually, can be happy and take informed decisions.
Open data and transparency is about empowerment, about calling a politician a liar in their face, about taking informed decisions. Hackathons are the way to do it, with people from newspapers, art, computer science, processing and opening data to the public. We talked before about opening data from the administration, but this is how a citizen opens windows. Through free software.

Takk takk

By JJ Merelo / @jjmerelo, Oficina de software libre, @oslugr

Slides cc-by-sa @ transparente-ugr.github.io & GitHub

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