The document discusses the adoption of an open-source Drupal content management system by the New York State Senate, highlighting its significance in promoting government transparency and accountability. It emphasizes the advantages of open-source systems, including cost savings, no vendor lock-in, and increased collaboration. Additionally, it notes the global trend of governments opting for Drupal as a default CMS for managing public data effectively.

1. A lot happened in the US Because of this...

2. 2
Drupal for National OpenGov...

3. New
Open-­‐Source
Drupal
CMS

4. h5p://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Sites
for
Every
Commi5ee
(Structured
Data)

5. Open
Data
(all
$
spent)

6. LegislaPon
as
Easy
As
Google..

7. “[NY
Senate]
is
taking
a
criPcally
important
step
to
help
restore
trust
in
government.
At
a
Pme
when
confidence
in
government
in
general
has
hit
bo5om,
this
is
an
extraordinarily
valuable
step
forward”
-­‐
Lawrence
Lessig,
Harvard
Law
“..clearly
se]ng
the
place
that
all
other
legislaPve
bodies
will
have
to
follow.
The
U.S.
Congress
ought
to
be
taking
some
clue”
-­‐Ellen
Miller,
ExecuPve
Director,
The
Sunlight
FoundaPon.
“..demonstrates
the
New
York
State
Senate’s
commitment
to
a
transparent
and
accessible
government”
-­‐
Dave
McClure,
U.S.
GSA
Associate
Administrator
“With
this
new
system,
New
York
State
takes
a
leadership
role
in
accountability
and
transparency”
-­‐
Craig
Newmark,
founder,
Craigslist.org
&
Craigslist
FoundaPon.
“[We]
applaud
the
State
Senate
for
its
efforts
to
further
open
the
legislaPve
process,”
Barbara
Bartole],
LegislaPve
Director,
League
of
Women
Voters.
Winner
of
three
“Best
of
New
York”
Awards
NY
State
CIO
of
the
Year
Named
to
InnovaPon
Week
Top
40
US
CIOs
Results:
Transparency,
Yes...

8. • No technical skill required to
manage content
• Content managed as
mashable data
• Modernize Antiquated
Systems, Terminate
Expensive Software
Licenses
• Open-source platforms &
developer tools, &
collaborative development
• Government-certified
Commercial Cloud hosting
• Net saving $1MM off ~
$8MM budget
But
Also
More
Efficient...

9. “DistribuPons”
are
Making
Drupal
the
“Default”
CMS
for
Governments
Worldwide

10. Drupal
“DKAN”
DistribuPon
Open-­‐Source
Data
Management
System
(DMS)
+
Content
Management
System
(CMS)
=
Streamlined
Data
CollaboraPon

11. The
Proprietary
SaaS
CompePPon...

12. CKAN
Open-­‐Source
Market
Leader
in
Europe...

13. In
2012
CKAN
Broke
Out...
Not
Just
for
Europe
Anymore...

14. • No vendor lock-In / choice of consultants / ability to build in-
house capacity
• Collaborate w/ our peers (White House)
• Security transparency (US DoD is a major consumer for this
reason)
• Open-Source platforms often pay more heed to open formats
and standards (e.g.: DCAT, RDFa, OData, JSON vs Shapefiles, PDF,
etc.)
• Innovation: healthy open-source projects can aggregate more
engineering effort than proprietary alternatives, propagate great
new extensions faster
• Freedom of Hosting Options: consume as a cloud-hosted
service today, change our mind and host in-house tomorrow, etc.
Why
Does
Open-­‐Source
Ma5er?

15. CKAN
Worldwide

16. http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
But
Data.gov.uk,
Data.gov,
HealthData.gov,
OpenGovPlaqorm,
etc.
all
add
Drupal
to
CKAN

17. And
many
local
gov’ts
sPll
roll
their
own...

18. Drupal
Itself
Now
Also
Becoming
a
Public
Sector
Data
Management
System
(“DMS”)

19. •
MATURE:
>1
million
sites
(2%
of
all
sites),
3,718
Code
commits/wk,
6,388
issue
comments/wk
•
IN-­‐HOUSE
SKILLS:
24%
of
.gov
sites
•
EXTENSIBLE:
18,489
Modules,
1,512
Themes,
21,009
Contributors
•
FISMA-­‐CerPfied
Cloud
HosPng
OpPons
•
INTEGRATES
easily
w/
public
websites
lots
of
de
facto
data
is
already
published
as
content
Why Drupal?

20. Open Data is Just “Sharing Your Files”
• Datasets
are
collecPons
of
resources,
with
some
descripPve
metadata
• Resources
are
just
files.
They
can
be
any
kind
of
file,
but
oxen
they
are
CSV
files,
spreadsheets
or
some
other
kind
of
tabular
data
file.
• OrganizaPons
create
datasets
and
upload
resources.
• Data
consumers
can
browse
datasets
and
somePmes
see
visualiza0ons
of
resources.
20

21. DKAN
•
Fully functional data portal housing datasets, Solr search, accessible
via JSON and RDF; csv or xml files uploaded through Drupal, stored in
*SQL, visualized through Recline.js
• Seeks
to
replicate
CKAN
2.0
funcPonality,
design,
standards,
&
API
• Reuses CKAN components wherever possible (e.g.: Recline.js)
• Built with support and input from the Open Knowledge Foundation
• Fully open project, with code on Drupal.org/project/DKAN

22. • DKAN
DistribuPon
DKAN Dataset
module
DKAN Datastore
module
DKAN Components

23. DKAN Demo

24. DKAN Demo

25. DKAN Demo

26. DKAN Demo

27. DKAN Demo

28. DKAN Demo

29. DKAN Demo

30. DKAN Demo

31. Early Returns: CivicInfo British Columbia

32. Early Returns: Data Wisconsin

33. Early Returns: Puerto Rico

34. •
Adding
feedback
on
datasets
•
Adding
support
for
data.json
•
Adding
DKAN
modules
to
OpenCivic
Distro
Ongoing Development

35. •
18th
most
“applauded”
of
824
entries
in
Knight
News
Challenge
for
Open
Government
•
Partnered
with
Open
Knowledge
FoundaPon
•
Upcoming
deployments
by
Revenue
Watch
InsPtute,
Puerto
Rico,
City
of
Cologne,
etc.
•
UNDP,
Open
Gov
Partnership,
World
Bank
ICT,
Code
for
America
key
validators
•Low-­‐cost
OpenSaaS?
Next

36. Andrew
Hoppin
andrew@nuams.com
|
@ahoppin
|
nuams.com