Presentation on Fingal's Open Data Journey and the challenges in releasing data given as part of Open Data Seminar for Public Bodies in Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 11th February, 2015
1. Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall
Fingal County Council
Fingal County Council
Fingal Open Data Journey
Seminar: Open Data for Public Bodies
Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. 11th February 2015
Dominic Byrne
@dominicbyrne_ @fingalopendata
@fingalopendata
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London Datastore
@fingalopendata
http://data.london.gov.uk
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Hacks & Hackers 2010
@fingalopendata
https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/12/hacks-and-hackers-dublin-data-in-the-dail/
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Why Open Data?
• Collaboration
• Transparency
• Economic Development
• Participation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/
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Fingal Open Data
http://data.fingal.ie
@fingalopendata
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Local Authorities
http://www.clarecoco.ie/your-council/opendata/ http://opendata.limerick.ie/ http://www.sligococo.ie/Opendata/
http://roscommon.roscoco.opendata.arcgis.com/ http://data.galwaycoco.opendata.arcgis.com/
@fingalopendata
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data.localgov.ie
http://data.localgov.ie
@fingalopendata
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How to Publish
@fingalopendata
• Choose Data for Release
• Extract in Open Format
• Create Metadata
• Choose Licence
• Publish Data & Metadata
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What Data?
@fingalopendata
• Data from your Website
– currently in non-Open formats
– currently under restricted Licence
• Data in Reports
• Data from Online Services & Maps
• Requested Data
• Open Data Census
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34233222@N05/3801511495/
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Open Data Census
@fingalopendata
http://index.okfn.org
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Census Criteria
@fingalopendata
• Exists
• Digital
• Public
• Free of Charge
• Online
• Machine Readable
• Available in Bulk
• Open Licence
• Current
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelomonosov/4431770374/
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Effort
http://www.flickr.com/photos/regi_a/4686464716/
@fingalopendata
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Intended Use
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52541181@N00/18908449/
@fingalopendata
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Resistance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crowderb/299414781/
@fingalopendata
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Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/644335254/
@fingalopendata
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Let go …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/furious-angel/297584201/
@fingalopendata
50. Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall
Fingal County Council
Fingal County Council
Fingal Open Data Journey
Seminar: Open Data for Public Bodies
Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. 11th February 2015
Dominic Byrne
@dominicbyrne_ @fingalopendata
@fingalopendata
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