Urban Data Talks #4 Presentation - Presentation by Jaime Ventura (Porto Digital) providing insights into the creation of Porto's open data platform, its internal workings and use cases realised on top of it.
2. About me
š Worked for Porto Digital in the last 4 years, as Head of Urban Platform, Data Analysis and
Digital Services.
š Member of OASC’s Technical Council since 2019
š OASC’s team member for EU projects such as ELISE and dRural
3. About Porto
š Largest city in the north of Portugal (second in the country)
š 230 thousand inhabitants
š 1.8 million in the metropolitan area
4. About Porto Digital
š Porto Digital Association is a private non-profit
association;
š It was created in 2004 by the Municipality of Porto, the
University of Porto and the Portuguese Business
Association (AEP), in cooperation with the company
Metro of Porto;
š Created to promote ICT projects within the context of the
city of Porto and its metropolitan area.
5. Goals
Have a integrated (but flexible, elastic and
open) solution for:
• (Context) Data access and management
• Data-driven decision making (daily
management)
• Data-drive policy making (medium/long
term management)
• (Open) Data Publishing
20. Open Data Project
Goals:
š Government Transparency
š Active Citizenship
š Operational Efficiency
š Innovation
21. The Strategy
Perform an assessment on the existing scenario:
š Which data exist
š How is it managed/processed
š Where is it stored
š Who is the owner and the periodicity of update
š …
š Define a Data Valuation Strategy, and create a Plan for the Management and Valuation
of Municipality’s Data.
23. The Indexer
š Owned by the municipality and accessed only by its workers
š Index all the existing data into datasets and:
š Allow searching
š Provide a preview of that data
š Provide metadata
š * Producer/owner
š * Update periodicity
š * Classification
š * …
24. The OpenData Portal
š Provide similar features as the
Index (indexing, searching,…) but
only for opendata
š Accessible by humans, but also
by machines (throught an API)