Open Data in Gent - AM/FM

Open Data in Gent:
From aftertought to
strategy
AM-FM GIS Belux
19/03/2013
Bart Rosseau
E-strategy
Stad Gent
Ego-slide
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Bart
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Gent
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Linus
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(ex)-Drummer
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Civil Servant
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Twitter: @bartrosseau
Open Data in Gent
• Why?
– Smart city for smart
citizens
– Open Government
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Innovation
Efficiëncy
Creative Economy
Co-creation
My Presentation
Data
Generation – scope = organisation
Publication – for developers
Re-Use– focus on results, solutions, end-users
Data generation
• Collecting data-sets
• excel to csv, kml
• ‘non-sensitive’ data:
– Streetnames
– Geodata
– Dog toilets
Data generation
Automatisation: as close to the source
as possible
API’s
Real Time – Dynamic data
Webservices, linked to GIS, Swing, ..
Added Value?
• New eyes on your organisation
– Organogram vs “datagram”
• Governemnt becomes data curator
– Open data enables dialogue about over infomanagement, datamanagement, collaboration
– Internal re-use!!!
Example
• Streetnames
• IntelliGent: BI with Police, Port of Ghent, OCMW, …
• Citadel On The Move
Next?
• Linked Open Data
• Semantic Web
• Inter- en cross governmental
collaboration
Data Publication
Afzender:
overheid
• USB
• First Dataportal: basic webpage with
downloadable files
• From excel to csv: open standards
• Machine Readable
Data publication
• http://data.gent.be
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json, xml, grid, kml, …
The Datatank + drupalmodule
Metadata, documentation,
Legal: licence/privacy
Added Value
• SPOC for data
• Profiling
• Portal
Example
• API parking garages
• Statistiscal data
• Kot@Gent: CERT
Next?
• State of the art
portal:
– the Datatank 3.0
– Antwerp, Kortrijk/
Leiedal, Westtoer
• API, machine
readable = ‘human’
readable: not just for
IT-crowd
Re-Use Data
• Community kicked it
off
• Apps for Ghent
– may 2011
– March 2012
– March 2013
• No follow-up on what
happened with the
data
Re-Use Data
Data dives: dialogue
Students – open data in courses
Creative Economy (e.g. Citypath)
Added Value
• Answer to FAQ
• Win/win
• Feedback for internal use
• New ideas (parkpret, Ghendetta, …)
Example
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Gentse Feesten
#code9000
Parking garages
Datavisualisations
3D data
Next?
• Data Enrichment/feedback
• Crowdsourcing - dataphilantropy
• From principle to policy instrument: Groningen
and ageing
Partners!
– Digipolis
– OKFN.be
– iMinds
– Ghent Web Valley
– Hacktivists
– Policymakers
– The Datatank
– Other Governments
– Ghent Living Lab
For your agenda:
23 maart 2013
http://appsforghent.be
http://data.gent.be
http://ghentlivinglab.be
http://thedatatank.com
http://opendataforum.be
http://opendatamanual.org
http://www.socrata.com/open-data-field-guide/