Introduction to OpenDataCommunities | Linda O'Halloran
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Introduction to the OpenDataCommunities service, which includes around 170 DCLG datasets. There is a mixture of statistics on housing, planning and Local Government finance; detailed data on services provided by individual councils; and information on registered providers of social housing. Presented by Linda O'Halloran, Head of Products for the Local Digital Programme, at the Flood Resilience Discovery Day in Bristol on 27 February 2015.
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Introduction to OpenDataCommunities | Linda O'Halloran
- 1. Introducing DCLG’s OpenDataCommunities service http://opendatacommunities.org A platform for routinely publishing all DCLG datasets in fully open, accessible and re-usable formats An integrated, open, accessible source of DCLG’s data, including: Homelessness statistics Housing statistics LA finance statistics Arms-Length bodies Maps and geography Other Central Government sources – e.g. Spending Ministry of Justice Repossessions data Office for National Statistics (e.g. Census, local Labour Markets) Contracts & tenders Housing & Planning registers Local Authority Sources – e.g. e.g. Planning Appeals, Social Housing Register Companies House Data Linking Energy Performance Registers Apps and insights for user communities, e.g. Neighbourhood Planning Local businesses Housing service providers OpenDataCommunities is… The Department’s data is available to blend and combine with related 3rd party sources, over the web, to stimulate innovative new tools and insights. So that
- 2. OpenDataCommunities Current position Tools for you to combine and extract data for your places of interest Apps by us, to demonstrate the power and potential of open, linked data Apps by others, re-using DCLG data alongside other sources
- 3. Get Involved Show us what you can do with our linked data. Tell us which DCLG datasets you would like to see released in more open, accessible forms. Collaborate to help us build the web of linked data and interconnected user communities. @ODCommunities Produced by Strategic Statistics Division Analysis and Innovation Directorate February 2015 ODC@communities.gsi.gov.uk
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- At this point, you may ask “how are we going to build this web of integrated local and national data?” At DCLG, I’m focussed on testing and proving that we can provide data that is genuinely open and accessible for re-use alongside related sources. The Solution is OpenDataCommunities. Diagram highlights how we have built a platform, or channel for releasing DCLG data that can be linked, over the web to other people’s datasets. These include a mix of central government and local authority sources. Diagram also shows how the results are open for re-use in new applications, for new audiences – including Neighbourhood Planning, Local Businesses etc. Does it actually work, and how is it making a difference?
- Currently, OpenDataCommunities comprises around 170 DCLG datasets. We have a mixture of statistics on housing, planning and Local Government finance; detailed data on services provided by individual councils; and information on registered providers of social housing. We’ve worked closely with partners and users (including Mark) to ensure we’re providing what users want, in the most accessible and useable forms. This has resulted in tools for the non-technical user to quickly access, link together and extract data about particular places – e.g. to retrieve everything we know about Eastleigh. Alongside these tools, we’ve developed various low cost applications which illustrate the art of the possible around visualising data in new/interesting ways, and linking it to third party sources. The point here is to stimulate interest from others to develop new/innovative tools. This is happening – e.g. through our work with innovators delivering new mobile applications for the housing rental market. Finally, and most importantly, we’re working with the local sector to ensure that OpenDataCommunities can provide data on demand, for use within local sites alongside non-DCLG sources. Currently, we are providing data feeds to LGA’s LG-Inform service, to support local performance benchmarking. You’ll hear from Mark shortly how we are working with Hampshire Hub to blend DCLG and local data about and for this locality.