scotish linked data interest group - edinburgh - 10 sept 2014

Aberdeen City Council

Aberdeen Open / Linked Data Initiatives:SLDIG - Edinburgh 10 Sept 2014

Aberdeen City Council

Introduction

• Code For Europe in Scotland

• Detail of Aberdeen’s Approach (AS)

• CodeTheCity

• Linked Data

• Scottish Govt – Open Data strategy

Aberdeen City Council

Code For Europe

Aberdeen City Council

Code For Europe (2)

Aberdeen City Council

Code For Europe (3)

Aberdeen’s Three Phases

1. Technical infrastructure – Open311

2. Sports and physical activities

3. Community involvement

Phase 1– Original Plan

• Create Open311 server

• Open311 server queries existing bespoke Aberdeen City Council systems

• Report issues via Open311

Reality stepped in

Phase 1– Plan B

• Develop Open311 server using Sinatra

• Populated server with

– Schools data

– Community Centres data

– Car Park data

• Expand beyond the Open311 Inquiry v1 specification

Involve Everyone

Involve Everyone

• Let the people decide the problems they wanted solving

• Excited to get what they want instead of given something they didn’t want

• People who didn’t attend still speaking excitedly about the event and its impact

Demo Map

Using Car Park data

Phase 2– Proof of Concept

• Capture the data by hand

– Scrapping from websites

– Manually typing in from PDFs

Phase 2– Proof of Concept

Phase 2– Live Data

Phase 2

• Activity discovery

• Crowd source sweat levels

• Mobile app

• Web app for Health Professionals

Phase 3

• We have community centres data

• Identify what we can do with it

Linked Data

• Implement a layer within the server to provide all the data in a Linked Data format

Links

• Test Open311 server -http://open311.xoverto.com

• MatchTheCity server –http://matchthecity.herokuapp.com

• CodeTheCity - http://codethecity.org

• Achieving social good• Improving local services• Sharing skills and knowledge across disciplines• Using and creating open data and Open

Government Data (OGD)• Open source• Quick delivery of real results

18th-19th October2014Meston Building

Old Aberdeen CampusUniversity of Aberdeen

CodeTheCity.org

• Code for Europe Fellows attending from around Scotland

18th-19th October2014Meston Building

Old Aberdeen CampusUniversity of Aberdeen

CodeTheCity.org

Aberdeen City Council

CodeTheCity

Aberdeen City Council

CodeTheCity

Aberdeen City Council

Linked Data – Smart Journey

Aberdeen City Council

Smart Journey (2)

Aberdeen City Council

Smart Journey (3)

Aberdeen City Council

What else?

• Data repository

• Scottish Government Open Data

strategy

Aberdeen City Council

Useful Links

• Smart Journey: http://smartjourney.co.uk

• C4E: http://codeforeurope.net/

• Commons For Europe: http://commonsforeurope.net/

• C4E Github: https://github.com/codeforeurope

• CodeTheCity(CTC): http://codethecity.org

• Eventifier for CTC:

http://eventifier.com/event/codethecity/popular

• SmartJourney data: http://data.smartjourney.co.uk/

Aberdeen City Council

Contact details & photo credits

• Ian Wattianw@aberdeencity.gov.uk

+44 1224 522830

@watty62

• Andrew Sageandrew@xoverto.com

@symboticaandrew