Everyone who cares about data management and improving information flow – in any business, in any walk of life – needs to keep an eye on the open data movement. This is because advocates for open data, and technologists working on open data projects, are assembling really smart arguments, road maps, and business models that can be applied just as well to non-open data.
All organizations are members of value chains and ecosystems. Within these groupings, they need to have their own analog to open data. Call it shared data. They need to share data in order to collaborate, reduce clerical costs, accelerate processes, and serve customers better.
Traditionally in business, the voice for shared data finds it hard to compete for airtime with system specialists or vendors. In the open data world, it's the other way around. Sharing data is the main theme, and the technologists are all committed to technical standards already – because they have the internet development mindset.
Sarah Cordivano is an expert in open geospatial data. You don't need to know anything about this field to appreciate her guidance on “Building the future of open data”. Replace “open” with “industry-shared” and Cordivano's ideas translate immediately to commercial settings. Azavea
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