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

2. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Fingal
@fingalopendata 2

3. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Fingal
• Est. 1994
• 3rd Largest
• Youngest
• Fast Growing
@fingalopendata 3

4. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Rapid Population Growth
@fingalopendata 4
273997
239992
196413
167413
152766
138473
114951
1981 1986 1991 1996 2002 2006 2011

5. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Fingal Data Hub
5@fingalopendata

6. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Open Data
@fingalopendata 6

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Fingal’s Data Search
@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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Dublinked
http://dublinked.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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Re-Use
@fingalopendata 15

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Economic Development
@fingalopendata 16
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22240293@N05/3845692998

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mypp.ie
@fingalopendata
http://www.mypp.ie

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ParkYa
@fingalopendata
http://www.parkya.com

19. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Transparency
@fingalopendata 19

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Budget Visualisation
@fingalopendata
https://openspending.org/fingal_exp_budget

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Election Count
@fingalcoco 21
http://www.clairebyrne.ie/counts

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Collaboration
@fingalopendata 22
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elwillo/4337007744/

23. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
Fingal Data Hub
23@fingalopendata

24. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie
myplan.ie
@fingalopendata 24
http://www.myplan.ie

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Participation
@fingalopendata 25
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aerosolhalos/5134485529/

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FixYourStreet
@fingalopendata
http://www.fixyourstreet.ie

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FixMyStreet
@fingalopendata
http://www.fixmystreet.ie

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FixMyArea
@fingalopendata
http://www.fixmyarea.com

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Code for Ireland
@fingalopendata
http://www.codeforireland.com

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Save A Selfie
@fingalopendata
http://www.codeforireland.com

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My Street
@fingalopendata
http://www.codeforireland.com

32. Fingal County Council data.fingal.ie@fingalopendata
MapLesotho
https://maplesotho.wordpress.com/

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Publishing Open Data
@fingalopendata 33

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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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Challenges
@fingalopendata 38

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How to?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34233222@N05/3801511495/
@fingalopendata

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Technology
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heylen/4310529876/
@fingalopendata

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Data Quality
@fingalopendata

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Standards/Persistence
@fingalopendata 42
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshholmes/4420154653/

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Charging Models
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59937401@N07/5858059202/
@fingalopendata

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Open Data Licence
@fingalopendata 44

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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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