Sarah Womer

Senior Analyst
Plessas Experts Network Inc.

General Best Practices in Open Data

Open Data
Tuesday February 7th, 1:35pm-1:55pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor
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The Importance of Open Source and Open Source Intelligence Tools and Methodologies for Humanity

Open Data
Wednesday, February 8 · 11:40am-12:05pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor
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sarah womer

General Best Practices in Open Data

Currently we have many standards that are addressing various types of specific issues in regards to Open Data but there doesn’t seem to be a generalized best practices guide. We would like to review many of the standards that exist or are being created and discuss what some of those generalized practices might be and define common vocabulary.

The Importance of Open Source and Open Source Intelligence Tools and Methodologies for Humanity

A framework and definitions will be provided for what open source intelligence is and how it relates to open source. 
Once this foundation is provided, I will present a few case examples of how the two concepts overlap for the betterment of humanity and some of the ethical and privacy issues that can also be identified from utilizing the two concepts together. I will also briefly address some of the benefits of Open Source AI to the OSINT community and vice versa. The conclusion will look at how the OS and OSINT communities could reach out to each other to coordinate projects for the betterment of humanity.

Bio

Sarah Womer is an Open Source Intelligence practitioner with over 20 years of experience as an OSINT tutor and teacher, production manager, researcher, editor, and analyst. She also is an advocate for Open Source and is a volunteer with IEEE SA Open. Currently, she is a Senior analyst, instructor, and news portal content manager with Plessas Experts Network Inc.