The document discusses open data initiatives in Aarhus, Denmark. It launched in August 2012 as part of SmartAarhus to support openness and transparency. The city is working with universities and private groups to build an open data platform and community. The platform will provide access to various city data like traffic, economic, geographic and more. Challenges include political concerns, resources and developing use cases and principles. Next steps are to release the platform, engage enterprises and demonstrate use cases.

1. Open Data in Aarhus
Birgitte Kjærgaard
bikj@aarhus.dk
The City of Aarhus
Kick off event, Big Data VIZ
Copenhagen, 12 March 2013
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2. Open Data Aarhus
• August 2012
• SmartAarhus
Why?
• Support the vision behind SmartAarhus
• Another kind of democracy
• New and different kind of services
• High level of synergies from partnerships
• Transparency
• Economic value

3. Organization
• Central Region of Denmark, Aarhus University,
Alexandra Institute, private enterprises and
The City of Aarhus

4. Main objectives
• Open data platform
• Community
• Aarhus Data Drinks
• Events
• Forum on platform

5. CKAN 2.0
Drupal

8. Data
• Real time transaction data from the
• Geodata libraries
• Traffic data • Data about the library media in stock
• Property list
• Economic data
• Population data
• Statistical • Geodata about hiking trails, parks,
• Historical data bonfire places, shelters, mountainbike
• … routes etc.
• Street names and codes
• Citizenship and ancestry in Aarhus
• CVR production units
• Preservation-worthy buildings in
Aarhus
• BBR buildings and properties in
Aarhus
• Data about raw material findings in
The Central Region of Denmark

9. Data in the pipeline
• Real time data about waste registration
• Data about the distribution system regarding heating
• Location of glass and paper containers
• Real time data about waste gas
• Traffic counts (manual and real time)
• Winter service
• Cycle counts
• P-zones
• Website statistics
• Data from the central telephone service
• Data from Aarhus Water (local water utility)
• Geodata about medical practices in The Central
Region of Denmark

10. Challenges
• Political concerns
• Internal worries – What’s in it for me?
• Resources
• No generic middleware
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11. Next steps
• Release
• Event for private enterprises
• Use cases
• Open Data principles

12. Thank you!
Birgitte Kjærgaard
bikj@aarhus.dk
The City of Aarhus