Local open data reaping the benefits
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This document summarizes local open data initiatives in the UK. It lists 16 local authorities that have open data champions and data stores, including Barnet, Birmingham, Bristol, and others. It provides examples of how open data can be used, such as for environmental monitoring and crowdsourcing landscape changes. While progress has been made in making local data open, more remains to be done to establish standards, business models, and funding to maximize the benefits of open data.
Local open data reaping the benefits
- 1. Mark Braggins 21st April 2015 Local Open Data: reaping the benefits
- 2. Sixteen local open data champions Local Authority Champion Site Barnet Open Barnet Birmingham Birmingham Data Factory Bristol Open Data Bristol Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Insight Devon Devon Data Loom Glasgow Open Glasgow Hampshire Hampshire Hub Lambeth Lambeth in Numbers Leeds Leeds Data Mill London London Data Store Manchester DataGM Windsor & Maidenhead DataTAP Redbridge DataShare Sunderland Local Public Data Surrey Surrey Open data Trafford Info Trafford Momentum building throughout the UK Screenshot from Owen Boswarva’s UK Local Government Open Data Resources interactive map
- 3. Most champions have data stores - or are building them
- 4. Local open data – any metaphors? How about Food? • Ingredients • Specialties • Cuisines • Themes • Recipes • Kitchens • Restaurants • Take-aways Image of Bothy Threads Food Map of the British Isles courtesy of hixxybabe on ebay
- 5. Local open data – any metaphors? How about Agriculture? • Sowing seeds / planting crops • Different local conditions • Climate (political, organisational) • Soil (stony, fertile etc) • Expertise • Tools and technology • People / community Harvesting of oats in Jølster, Norway ca. 1890 (Photo: Axel Lindahl/Norwegian Museum of Cultural History) via Wikipedia
- 7. Data, information, insight, news, views, and initiatives
- 9. Helping see the wood from the trees Blog post by Mike Sedgewick on Chandler’s Ford Today (local web site): A Hero of Trees - Richard St. Barbe Baker Screenshot from Steve Peters’ Local Data Discovery app Screenshot from DATA.GOV.UK previewingTree Preservation Orders for the whole of Eastleigh
- 10. WuDoWuD • Historic open data from multiple sources • Environmental conditions leading up to severe weather events • Identify trigger points • Update with more recent / current data • Use to inform decision-making • Potential to save lives, improve efficiency and reduce costs Screenshot from STFC case study featuring WuDoWuD from Know Now Information http://www.kn-i.com/
- 11. Landscape Watch Hampshire Crowdsourcing landscape change from archived aerial photography Capture the change information as data Publish the output on Hampshire Hub as open data Screenshot from Landscape Watch Hampshire, which is currently undergoing Alpha testing
- 12. Open Data Camp • Open Data Camp - The first UK unconference for open data • Lots of output: inc 20+ blog posts • It won’t be the last • Next one ‘up north’ in the Autumn • In the meantime, there’s BlueLightCamp 6-7 June in Birmingham (Open Data Camp will be there!) GP Pressure Map, created at Open Data Camp
- 13. To what extent are we reaping the benefits? • Lots of progress - loads of open data out there (both local and national) • Local open data champions network • Case studies are being created and shared • Together we are stronger • Great momentum, but... • It’s still early days • Lots still to do (e.g. standards, sustainable business models, sources of funding, compelling business cases) Steam engine tractors with threshing machines, Latvia, 1930.-ies. Photo courtesy of Valmiera's museum, via Valters Grivins Flickr.
- 15. Photo credit opening slide • Medieval farming: This image depicts what it may have been like to be part of a medieval farming family. Included in Kulturgeschichtliche Bilder no.5, Kempen (Verlag Dr. te Neues), undated (c.1960). Online, courtesy Dortmund, Westfaelisches Schulmuseum (Westphalian School Museum in Dortmund, Germany).