Alexander Coley
Data Standards & Policy Manager (Defra)
@alexrcoley
Open Standards
Open Standard: definition
developed through collaboration
a transparent process
due process (through a standards body)
fair access
market support
licensed on a royalty free basis (compatible with open source and proprietary licensed solutions)
Some (political) context
Digital (policy)
Open Data (policy)
standards hub
INSPIRE (legislation)
Environmental (outcomes)
Challenges
sharing, using and reusing data is easy
if you have infinite resources and time
Lock in
Sharing data
Using data
Combining data
Effective public services
Some standards
Types of INSPIRE standards
Systems and services: the delivery mechanisms such as WCS,WMS,WFS
Data: Schemas, URIs, vocabularies, codelists, UML specifications
Formats: encoding of the data such as GML, GeoJSON, RDF
a slightly INSPIRE centric view
and..
Registries and URIs
INSPIRE and INSPIRE
why WMS or WMTS doesn't help
store yourself or served to
Visualise or Analyse
Convergence
Some Principles
always open standards
where possible open data
doesn't work well without the actual data
always use identifiers and they need to be http URIs
link to other people's data
and where you can reuse other people's data and definitions
there are choices
and....
best practice is not yet fully described
Where next ?
Alexander Coley
@alexrcoley
