Data discovery and exploration in a rich, visual, interactive and intuitive Web 2.0 online application
Melbourne, Australia, September 30, 2009 — Space-Time Research expands its role as an enabler for Government 2.0 with the announcement of its ‘Open Data Initiative’ web site. The Open Data Initiative is a free online service for the creation and dissemination of data for public consumption — now any organisation can disseminate data to the public for free and participate in the Gov2.0 experience.
The Open Data Initiative enables users to discover and explore data in a rich, interactive, and intuitive application. Users can select and visualize any combination of data, and then export, print, link to, and/or share it in collaboration environments. These highly engaging data experiences make extinct the labor-intensive scanning of large documents of published tables and charts.
The Open Data Initiative is a Web 2.0 site hosted on the Google AppEngine Cloud, enabling providers of public data to create engaging, rich and collaborative web experiences built on top of Space-Time Research’s SuperVIEW product suite. This provides transparency, fast responsiveness and scalability with built-in redundancy to a global audience.
The Open Data Initiative:
- is cost and time efficient — reduces the workload on data analysts and researchers
- provides data that is complete — maximises the ability of the public to self-service data of personal interest; no compromises on providing just subsets of the data
- provides data as service — enables organisations to provide a new online data service to the public
- protects the relevance of an organisation’s brand — provides an engaging and rewarding experience for the public, which reinforces the relationship of trust they have in an organization
- delivers data integrity — gives organisations confidence that the public are seeing the right numbers, graphs, and maps, and reaching the correct interpretation and understanding behind those numbers.
- delivers data responsiveness — minimises the time between data collection and data dissemination to ensure maximum relevancy of the data to the audience
- creates communities of users — ensures the online experience can be captured and shared by the public in collaborative environments from Blogs to Twitter.
Organisations are invited to test drive a demonstration at www.opendatainitiative.com. They are also invited to participate and send Space-Time Research their data by following the instructions on Data Provider Instructions. Alternatively they can contact Space-Time Research for further information.