A Quick Look Round CouncilData Stores

Tony HirstDepartment of Communication and

SystemsThe Open University

data NOT information

Cf. syndication

DiscoverRequestReuse3

Archival dataCurrent data

Verticals

Who’s the data for?

Does the data flow?

http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/births-and-fertility-rates

http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/births-and-fertility-rates.csv

http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/births-and-fertility-rates.xml

CSV

So CSV helps simple data flow…

=importData(“CSV_URL”)

The spreadsheet becomes

A DATABASE

=userDefinedFormula()

KML

So KML helps geo-data flow…

Malleable data views

Can you query it?

query:

:response

http://bit.ly/9sElKU

http://bit.ly/aiWnfe

Timely data…

Live data…

Linked Data™

Distinct identities?

So who speaks SPARQL?

Whose data is it anyway?

Eat your own dog food

Use YOUR data:

- to power the council website- in everyday council operations- when working with organisations under council control

can I get council info as data?

can I query the data?

can I get the data out in a standard format?

Letter to Government departments on opening up data

Monday 31 May 2010

Local government spending transparency

New items of local government spending over £500 to be published on a council-by-council basis from January 2011.

New local government contracts and tender documents for expenditure over £500 to be published in full from January 2011.

Monday 31 May 2010

[T]he Deputy Prime Minister and I would be grateful if departments would take immediate action to meet this timetable for data transparency, and to ensure that any data published is made available in an open format so that it can be re-used by third parties. From July 2010, government departments and agencies should ensure that any information published includes the underlying data in an open standardised format.

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