scotish linked data interest group - edinburgh - 10 sept 2014
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Presentation to the Scottish Linked Data Interest Group held in Edinburgh 10 Sept 2014. It gives an update on Aberdeen City Council's projects including Code For Europe and Code The City.TRANSCRIPT
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 [email protected]
+44 1224 522830
@watty62
• Andrew [email protected]
@symboticaandrew