Apps4Fingal Open Data Competition
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Presentation given at the launch of the Fingal Open Data Apps4Fingal competition in Fingal County Hall, Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland on 9th November, 2011 The presentation includes an overview of Open Data and an explanation of Apps4Fingal. For more information see http://data.fingal.ie/apps4fingal
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- 1. apps 4 fingal launch 9 th November, 2011 @ fingalopendata #Apps4Fingal
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- 7. What is Open Data?
- 12. Why Open Data?
- 13. Transparency
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- 19. E.U. : Reuse of Public Sector Information
- 20. Open Data Initiatives Worlwide
- 21. Fingal Open Data
- 22. Open Data relating to Fingal http://data.fingal.ie
- 23. Over 90 datasets in 12 categories
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- 25. Apps
- 26. Blog
- 27. About
- 29. http://www.dublinked.ie/ Dublin Region Innovation Network
- 30. Dublinked data
- 31. Apps
- 32. http://election.hittheroad.ie Polling Stations Website
- 33. Bring Banks App https://github.com/robmooney/BringBanks
- 34. Disabled Parking App https://market.android.com/search?q=dublin+parking&so=1&c=apps
- 35. Traffic Camera Map http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=86745310eb9b44a7b5e3f94498a9e27a
- 36. Next Steps for Open Data
- 37. Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ We Need Irish Open Data
- 38. We Need Apps
- 39. apps 4 fingal C O M P E T I T I O N @fingalopendata #Apps4Fingal #iodw
- 46. apps 4 fingal prizes Recognition Larger Company ESRI Ireland Fingal County Council € 2,500 Overall Fingal County Council € 500 value Student Fingal Works € 500 Ideas Dublin Airport Authority Fingal Tourism Fingal County Council € 2,500 Tourism Fingal County Childcare Committee Fingal County Council € 2,500 Community Fingal County Enterprise Board Drinan Enterprise Centre Beat Enterprise Centre Base Enterprise Centre Linc Centre, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown € 2,500 Enterprise Supported by Amount Prize Category
- 47. apps 4 fingal sponsors
- 48. App Competitions
- 49. http:// publicdata.eu European Open Data Challenge
- 50. San Francisco Apps http:// datasf.org /showcase/
- 53. apps 4 fingal sponsors
- 54. apps 4 fingal C O M P E T I T I O N @fingalopendata #Apps4Fingal
- 55. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Use of any Fingal County Council or other logos and brands are not covered by this license. Pictures as marked used under Creative Commons license. If you believe any content is infringing copyright, please contact us via http:// data.fingal.ie www.slideshare.net/fingalopendata
Editor's Notes
- Today, I am going to talk about Open Data and why we should consider it; give an overview of Open Data in Ireland; share our experience with Fingal Open Data look at the benefits and challenges of Open Data
- What about Fingal?
- The Fingal area covers North County Dublin – north of the Liffey and the M50 including Blanchardstown, Howth, Swords, Balbriggan and Dublin Airport It is the 3 rd largest Local Authority area by population as per preliminary Census 2011 figures It is the youngest area in the country It was fastest growing from 2002 – 2006 (22%) and 3 rd fastest growing from 2006 – 2011 (14%)
- To cope with our phenomenal growth we relied heavily on data for service planning. We built up considerable experience of data sharing.
- The Fingal Data Hub was created by the Fingal Development Board in 2009. It was a collaboration between 9 partner agencies. It was designed for sharing of anonymised data between partner agencies, to enable interagency cooperation and service planning. In 2010 the data was made publicly available.
- Open Data plays an important role in Open Government In particular, it underpins collaboration Open Data is …
- Public data Which is not subject to data protection or other limitations
- Open Formats Available in non-proprietary formats e.g. CSV, XML, KML, RDF, open APIs
- Machine Readable In a format that computers can process
- Accessible Available to the widest range of people for the widest range of uses
- Why would we publish Open Data?
- Transparency To Open up Government and enable the Public to see the underlying information. What is the actual evidence-based reality as opposed to the perceived reality
- Participation To increase citizen engagement with Government. If Government and Citizens are to cooperate, then Government can’t be the only ones with the information
- Collaboration In addition to Citizen-Government collaboration outlined earlier, also - To enable the combination of data from different public sector agencies To enable other sectors to collaborate with Government.
- Economic Opportunities Public sector data can be used as the basis for online services, mobile applications, analytics, etc. Provide an opportunity for businesses to utilise the data to create products and services Also analytics for market research Create employment and pay taxes and rates
- Where did Open Data originate?
- In the United States, Barak Obama promised Open Government during his election campaign. This website, data.gov was created in 2009 to share US Government data. This is the seen as the main catalyst that has driven the Open Data movement
- In fact, the EU were ahead of the game The 2003 EU Reuse of Public Sector Information Directive was designed to allow European companies to exploit the potential of Public Sector Data and to contribute to economic growth and job creation. In a 2009 report, the EU cited the value of EU Public sector data at an estimated €27B. However, the PSI directive was primarily about requesting or ‘pulling’ data from Government rather than the publishing or ‘push’ model of Open Data
- In the two and a half years since the launch of data.gov, Open Data sites have sprung up around the world, mainly in Canada, USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand 2010 – UK Government, London, United Nations, World Bank
- What about Ireland? Up to November 2010 there were no Open Data websites in this country.
- Fingal Open Data evolved from the principles of the Fingal Data Hub and the Open Data movement. In Summer 2010 we were preparing a report with data about all Local Authorities which was difficult to find and only available in PDF We discovered the Open Data movement and felt that this was a better way We decided to take the initiative with the backing of the County Manager and Fingal Open Data was born It was the first Open Data website in this country, launched on 16th November 2010 – a year next Wednesday It is available at data.fingal.ie The website, which you can see on screen, provides public access to source data from Council systems. In that year we have had 4,700 unique visitors
- There are currently over 90 datasets organised into 12 categories Detailed information is provided about each dataset, including description, date published and available formats.
- We have added a new facility to request data We will check if we have the data and whether it can be released If we can, we will publish it to the site
- The site has a Featured Apps section to showcase uses that Fingal Open Data has been put to
- There is a blog where we post updates on Fingal Open Data and Open Data in Ireland
- The About section gives general information about Fingal Open Data and a link to the licence governing the use of the data
- The data is subject to the Irish PSI Licence, drawn up by the Department of Finance, which allows for fair use of the data.
- The Dublinked initiative was announced on 27 th June A collaboration between Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, Fingal & South Dublin County Councils and NUI Maynooth Platform provided by IBM A Network for Sharing Data to facilitate innovation in the urban environment through collaboration between private, public and research partners with the Dublin city region as a proving ground Invitations to participate are currently open Event on 18th October to introduce the Network as part of Innovation Dublin month www.dublinked.ie
- For Open Data to be of value, it must be put to some use
- This is the first service that has been developed with Fingal Open Data. It was built as an added feature on the ‘Hit The Road’ website It displayed all polling Stations for the 2011 General Election and allowed a user to search for a Polling Station and get directions to that Polling Station using Public Transport It showed data from all 4 Dublin Authorities, but the data was scraped from the other 3 Local Authority websites.
- This is an iPhone App that has been built with Fingal Bring Bank data It displays all Bring Banks It allows filtering on the type of recyclable material – glass, cans or textiles It displays information about the selected Bring Bank It also identifies the nearest Bring Bank to your location and will provide directions to Bring Banks
- This Android App called Dublin Parking displays the location of disabled parking spaces in the Dublin Region The Fingal data came from Fingal Open Data The data for the rest of the Region was requested from and supplied by the other 3 Dublin Authorities
- ESRI Ireland created this Traffic Camera Map on their ArcGIS.com platform Showcase the capability of their technology
- What are the next steps for Open Data?
- We need to have more Irish Open Data We want to encourage Local Authorities, Government Departments and Agencies to start releasing Open Data
- We need apps & services built with Open Data The ultimate objective is to make use of the data through apps that benefit the community, citizens and businesses Around the world Apps Competitions have proven to be very successful in providing the incentive for the development of these apps It is for this reason that Fingal County Council is building on the success of Fingal Open Data in launching Apps4Fingal
- We have been promoting Apps4Fingal through Social Media Search for Apps4Fingal included this site – Sea Angling Ireland They have identified the data on Fingal Open Data that relates to their interest Nice demonstration that data is not just for techies but affects us all
- Full rules on Fingal Open Data
- I am pleased to announce that thanks to our various sponsors, we have a prize fund to the value of €11,000
- I am pleased to announce that thanks to our various sponsors, we have a prize fund to the value of €11,000
- What are the next steps for Open Data?
- I am pleased to announce that thanks to our various sponsors, we have a prize fund to the value of €11,000
- In line with the theme, this presentation is licenced for sharing under a Creative Commons licence It is available for viewing and downloading on slideshare Thank you.