Data Commons, Data Sharing and Data Marketplaces with Steven De Costa of CKAN and LinkDigital
Data sharing across organisations and ecosystems is an unstoppable force in modern data analytics.
Steven, Executive Director at Link Digital and Co-Steward at CKAN Association, presented to the Data Vault User Group with fascinating look at how the open source community has been building and refactoring a data management system, CKAN, to meet the evolving needs of Open Government Data programs, Data Sharing initiatives and corporate data catalogues. Open data is becoming more and more important especially public sector organisations sharing data at scale. Users of CKAN include the UK National Health Service, New South Wales Government, the Government of Canada, data.gov in the USA and opendata.swiss.
SPEAKER BIO – STEVEN DE COSTA
Executive Director at Link Digital and Co-Steward at CKAN Association
Steven founded Link Digital in 2001 and has been leading the design and development of Open Data Projects based on CKAN since 2013. Providing leadership of the CKAN project via the Steering Group, largely via community building and communications initiatives. Experienced with, and provides leadership in, all areas of digital operation including management, governance and strategy through to HTML, programming, animation, QA Testing, design, and marketing.
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