Tracey P. Lauriault is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NIRSA NUIM working on the ERC funded Programmable City Project.

1. An Open Data Story
1st Seminar
The Programmable City Project
Open data & evidence informed
decision making
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault
Programmable City Project
NIRSA, NUIM

2. Content
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Discovering the power of data
Access to Data (Canada)
Open Data (+/-Canada)
Data and The Programmable City Project
Open data in Ireland...

3. Discovering the Power of Data

4. University Setting
MADGIC
University Geomatics
Image source: http://www.geomatikk.ntnu.no/english/

5. Federal Government Setting
Provincial and Territorial
Geomatics Accord (2001)

6. Civil Society Setting
Geographic
and
Numeric
Information
Systems
Social
Planning
Network of
Ontario

7. Research Setting
Research Data Consultations
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8. Access to Data in Canada

9. Canada’s Access Story
 Universities / Research libraries, data & GIS
librarians
 Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
 Granting Councils – SSHRC/NSERC/CIHR
 Scientists – natural & social
 Geomatics
 NGOs & Civil Society (social, environmental)
 Governments, Federal, Provinces, Territories &
Cities

10. Data Cyber/infrastructures
Technical
Standards
Institutional
Framework
• data integration
• Interoperability
• Preservation
• transfer
• administration
• policy
• law
Geospatial
• skills
Data
Infrastructure
(GDI)
Access Network
Framework Data
• geodetic
• base maps
• catalogs
• metadata
• web services
• atlas

11. Open Data (Canada)

12. In the background...
 Platforms:
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GoogleMaps - mashups
Flickr – geotagging
MyDelicious – Folksonomies
Blogging & Vlogging
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
 Open Access
 SPARC
 CIHR
 Data Management
 International Polar Year
 Open Source
 Un-conferences
 Bar camps
 GOSLING gaggles
 Community WiFi
 Law
 Lawrence Lessig
 Future of Ideas
 Code is Law
 Creative Commons
 Canadian Internet Public
Policy Interest Clinic
 Michael Geist
 Teresa Scassa
 David Fewer

13. Access to Public Data

14. UK Guardian Free Our Data Campaign

15. US Data.gov

16. Open Data Definitions (sample)
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1992 - UNCED – Agenda 21 Chapter 40,
Information for Decision Making
2005 - Open Knowledge Foundation
(OKNF) - 11 Principles (Licence specific)
2007 - US Open Government Working
Group - 8 principles of Open Government
Data
GEOSS - Data Sharing Principles for the
Global Earth Observing System of Systems
Science Commons Protocol for
Implementing Open Access Data
Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
Open Economics Principles
Ontario Information Privacy Commissioner
- 7 Principles
Sunlight Foundation - 10 Principles for
Opening Up Government Information
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US Association of Computing Machinery
(USACM) – Recommendations on Open
Government
American Library Association (ALA) –
Access to Government Information
Principles
Open Congress - Open Data and Open
Database Creation Principles
W3C - Publishing Open Government Data
Tim Berners-Lee 5 Star of Open Data
OECD, Recommendations on Public Sector
Information
OECD, Principles and Guidelines for Access
to Research Data from Public Funding

17. Most Popular Open Data Defs.
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Access
Redistribution
Reuse
Absence of Technological
Restriction
5. Attribution
6. Integrity
7. No Discrimination Against Persons
or Groups
8. No Discrimination Against Fields
of Endeavor
9. Distribution of License
10. License Must Not Be Specific to a
Package
11. License Must Not Restrict the
Distribution of Other Works
★ make your stuff available on the Web
(whatever format) under an open license
★★ make it available as structured data (e.g.,
Excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV
instead of Excel)
★★★★ use URIs to denote things, so that
people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to
provide context
Tim Berners-Lee, 5 star deployment
scheme for Open Data

18. Cities take the lead in Canada

19. G4 + 1
Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver + Montreal

20. Open Data Cities
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Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot
City of Brandon (MB)
City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
City of Calgary (AB)
City of Edmonton (AB)
City of Fredericton (NB)
Portail dedonnées ouvertes de la ville de
Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led
County of Grande Prairie (AB)
Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)
City of Hamilton Open and Accessible Data (ON),
City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data
Hamilton – Citizen Led ***NEW
OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
City of Kelowna Open Data Catalog (BC) ***NEW
City of London (ON), OpenData London – Citizen
Led
Township of Langley (BC)
Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)
City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)
Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC),
Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
City of Nanaimo (BC)
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City of Niagara Falls (ON)
Region of Niagara (ON)
Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)
District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group –
OpenData Ottawa; Apps
Region of Peel (ON)
City of Prince George (BC)
Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale
Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
City of Red Deer, Alberta
City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site
Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal
City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
City of Victoria (BC)
Open Data (city) Waterloo (ON).
Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo –
Citizen Led,
City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog

21. Open Data Provinces
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Data BC
Alberta Open Data government portal
Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led
Ontario Open Data
Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du Québec,
Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led

22. Federal Open Data
 Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal & Atlas of Canada
 Office of the Information Commissioners Open Government
Resolutions
 OpenData.gc.ca
 Research Data Canada
 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data

23. Citizen Engagement
http://opennorth.ca/
Budget Plateau
http://budgetplateau.com/

24. Citizen Recreation
http://patinermontreal.ca/rinks/74-saint-simon-apotre
http://montrealouvert.net/a-propos/

25. Accountability
http://represent.opennorth.ca/
http://mamairie.ca/

26. Public Health
http://resto-net.ca/en

27. Chief Medical Officer of Health
http://emis.santemontreal.qc.ca/

28. Accessibility
Catherine Roy: ecrire@catherine-roy.net http://montrealaccessible.ca/

29. Transparency
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Les appels d’offres et certain contrats
octroyés de la Ville de Montréal et la
province du Québec (version détaillée
ici)
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Le registre des entreprises du Canada
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Les dons au partis politiques du
Canada
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Les dons aux partis politiques du
Québec
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Le registre des lobbyistes du
gouvernment fédéral(aussi registre et
journal)
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Licenses restreintes dans l'industrie
de la construction
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Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de
Laval depuis 2007
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Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de
Montréal depuis 2006

30. Hackathons
http://www.rhok.org/
http://www.livinglabmontreal.org
/TranspoCampMTL
http://montrealouvert.net/2011/
11/23/compte-rendu-du-3ehackathon-montrealouvert/?lang=en

31. Entrepreneurs
 All 10,000 public and
private foundations.
 Exhaustive list of
federal and provincial
funding programs
specifically for nonprofits (over 700).
 Corporate funders
(500 and growing).

32. Transportation Planning
Au niveau municipal, les
données sont accessibles
indirectement sur le site de la
ville de Montréal. En d'autres
termes, ces données n'ont pas
été prévues pour être utilisées
de manière directe mais sont
affichées sur une carte dans la
section Info-Travaux.
Au niveau provinciale, les
données viennent du
Ministère des transports du
Québec et de son
service Québec 511. Là aussi le
MTQ se démarque de ses
homologues canadiens en étant
a priori le premier à proposer
des données GPS pour la
localisation des chantiers.

33. Advocacy
http://www.opendatabc.ca
/index.html
http://opennorth.ca/

34. Data Negotiation
http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php

35. Citizen Science
http://waterenvironmentalhub.ca/

36. Environment
http://www.ecojustice.ca/mediacentre/press-releases/court-victory-forcescanada-to-report-pollution-data-for-mines
http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/

37. Funding
http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-fra.html

38. Open by Design
http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr-ori-ari_2010_1.aspx

39. Programmable City

40. Analytical Framework
Translation: City into code
Understanding the city
(Knowledge)
Transduction: Code reshapes city
P 1: How are digital data
P 5: How does software drive
generated and processed
public policy development and
about cities and their citizens? implementation?
Managing the city
(Governance)
P 2: How are discourses and
practices of city governance
translated into code?
P 6: How is software used to
regulate and govern city life?
Working in the city
(Production)
P 3: How is the geography and
political economy of software
production organised?
P 7: How does software alter the
forma and nature of work?
P 4: How is software
discursively produced and
legitimated by vested
interests?
P 8: How does software transform
the spatiality and spatial
behaviour of individuals?
Living in the city
(Social Politics)
Analytical framework of the SOFTCITY project
Source: NIRSA Programmable City Project Post Doctoral Application Document

41. Kitchin’s Assemblages
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Systems of thought
Governmentalities
Political economy
Forms of knowledge
Practices
Subjectivities
Materialities/Infrastructures
Organisations and institutions
Places
Marketplaces

42. Information Requirements
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Instantiations – smartcities (IBM), sustainable
connected cities (INTEL), government,
community based, data analytics, big data,
open data
Infrastructures – portals, metadata catalogs,
standards, formats, requirements,
architecture, APIS, data (materialities)
Policies/Laws – licenses, regulation,
guidelines, agreements, contracts, privacy,
access, IPR (political economy)
People – hactivists / public servants
/researchers / company employeers /
communities / data users / data producers /
data brokers / app developers /
entrepreneurs / curators /consultants /
politician / coder, prosumer, citizen
scientists (subjectivities)
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Activities – hackathons, conferences, g 2 b,
data users, sales, apps development,
evidence informed decision making,
planning, advocacy, collective data
gathering/OSM, sensing, surveillance
(Practices)
Places – organization (ngos, gov. Office,
etc.), public space (cafe), hubs (t-cube),
storage, lists, blogs, websites, groups, virtual
- hangouts/skype, bulletin
boards/software/calendars
Incentive structures – profit, democratic
deliberation, MIS, notoriety-market, citizen
science/VGI/crowd, data analytics, social
need/desire/affect, obligation, creativity,
propaganda, amusement, team, social
expectations? (Subjectivities / marketplace)
Data – types, forms, controls, use, access,
communities, users, classifications,
standards, institutions,
preservation/lifecycle, quality, medium

43. Open Data in Ireland