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1. Helsinki Region Infoshare – Open Regional Data for All
Project Manager Ville Meloni
Forum Virium Helsinki
Re-use of PSI workshop – 23 November 2011

2. HRI - Project Overview
“Making regional information quickly and easily accessible
to all. The information can be used freely at no cost”
To develop a To build a web
network of service through
information owners which the data can
who maintain and be easily found,
open their data accessed and
following common utilised.
guidelines.
To pilot an open data
Provide information as machine activity model and its
readable ”raw data” which is easy to implications to both the
utilize in various applications and producers and end users of
web-services. the data.
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3. Timeline, financing, implementation
Timeline
2010-2012 (pilot)
2012- (on-going function)
Financing Implementation
•Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, •Directive board
Kauniainen •City of Helsinki Urban
•Finnish innovation fund Facts
(Sitra) •Forum Virium Helsinki
•Ministry of Finance
Collaboration with many different organisations to open data i.e.
government, other municipalities, municipal organizations, etc.
Collaboration between data producers and developers using that data!
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4. Why open data ?
• Government
efficiency
• Business and
innovation
• Transparency and
democracy

5. What data is opened ?
1. Statistics and estimates
– Urban phenomenon: demographics,
employment, housing, commuting,
etc.
– Geographical granularity: municipal,
district, grid-level, etc.
2. Geospatial data
– Data that supports presentation of
statistical and other data on a map,
i.e. district-level shapefiles.
3. Other data
– Public services, mass-transportation,
infrastructure related data, etc.
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6. HRI-Open data operational model
HELSINKI REGION INFOSHARE
•Criteria and instructions
•Feedback on data
•Tools to open the data
•Feedback on the service
•Feedback
Public data DISTRI-
”extra. CLEARING ”www. END-
/producers
Hri.fi”
BUTION hri.fi”
and sources HOUSE USERS
•Data Catalogs •Data Catalogs
• (data + metadata)
Production, •Definition of HRI data - •Maintenance of the •Employees of the
maintenance, criteria, information web service municipalities
provision according to policy and principles, …, •Collecting users •State government
agreed rules and licensing feedback •Enterprises
•Support to data •Updating of data •Research and
legal framework
education
providers catalogs
•Citizens
PRODUCTION OPENING DISTRIBUTION UTILISATION
PHASED APPROACH
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7. www.hri.fi -web-service
”Easy to find, access
and utilize data”
•Maintaining of the metadata.
Actual data is hosted
elsewhere.
•A channel for data users to
give feedback and request
new data.
•Brings visibility to existing
data pools and encourages
more usage.
Open for all: companies,
citizends, municipal
administration, research
institutions, etc.

8. www.hri.fi -web-service
News about Data-search,
project progress , access, feedback,
experiences from rating and
different discussions
stakeholders

9. www.hri.fi -web-service

10. semantic.hri.fi – experimenting with
linked open data (lod) and statistics
• Experimental service. Includes Helsinki
metropolitan area statistics in a semantic
RDF-database. Source statistics from
www.aluesarjat.fi (PC-Axis).
• To pilot and understand the possibilities
of lod and statistical data in terms of
compatibility and linkages to external
data sources.
• Application programming interfaces
aimed for developers who are interested
in using statistical data for various
applications and analysis.
• SPARQL ja HTTP GET interfaces.
• Example applications.

11. Application Examples - Statistics
Visualization of www.aluesarjat.fi statistics with Google motion chart.
http://www.floapps.com/lab/tieke/bigchart.php

12. Application Examples - Geodata
Helsinki metropolitan area shapefiles (KML) in use on top of Open Streetmap

13. Project focus areas 2011
• Further development of the www.hri.fi service
• Establishing the HRI-function (people, processes, guidelines, etc.)
• More open data, better open data, wider scope of open data, inter-
usability of data!
• Encouraging the usage of the data, application competitions for
developers, co-operation with companies, universities, etc. that want
to use it. Apps4Finland2011 (apps4finland.fi). IBM Smarter Cities
Challenge in Helsinki. Preparing for WDC Helsinki 2012.
• National and international co-operation related especially to: legal
issues, operational best-practices and metadata interoperability.
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14. Application Examples – Public
Transport
ReittiGPS – Markus Halttunen
Data: http://developer.reittiopas.fi/ Source: http://sites.google.com/site/reittigps/

15. http://www.apps4finland.fi/fi/apps4finland-gaala
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16. Apps4Finland – Open data apps
competition
http://www.apps4finland.fi/fi/kilpailutyot
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20. Use of open data – some HRI
observations
Complementing existing services with open data
•Re-use of PSI is not a new phenomenon, but taking new
forms -> adding value to existing service companies and
their customers -> more value with less cost
Emergence of mobile app ecosystem -> birth of B2C
mobile apps
•Quick to develop, quick to market, simple use cases
B2B & open data – arising opportunities largely untapped
market for SMEs -> SME’s are waking up to this -> public
sector among target customers, i.e. E-services offerings
TRUST IS IMPORTANT FOR DEVELOPER-USERS – INCLUDES ACCESS/SLA

21. Thank you !
www.hri.fi
semantic.hri.fi
http://www.facebook.com/helsinkiregioninfoshare
Ville Meloni
Forum Virium Helsinki
Project Manager
ville.meloni@forumvirium.fi
www.forumvirium.fi