Danish Institute for Study Abroad Communications: New Media and Changing Communities Dublin Visit Tracey P. Lauriault NIRSA Seminar Room National University of Ireland Maynooth 2nd April 2015

1. Tracey P. Lauriault
NIRSA Seminar Room
National University of Ireland Maynooth
2nd April 2015
Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Communications:
New Media and Changing Communities
Dublin Visit
Political Arithmetic,
Territorial Geometry and
Programmed Cities

2. Table of Contents
1. Research Question
2. 2 Frameworks
3. 3 Case Studies
a) Re-Ontologizing the City, From Old School
Classifications to Rules Based/Object Oriented
Mapping
b) Measuring openness in the city: Open data and
open government
c) The making of homeless people and calculating
homelessness

3. 1. Research Question

4. Research Question
How are digital data materially and
discursively supported and processed
about cities and their citizens?

5. 2. Research Frameworks

6. Kitchin’s Data Assemblage
Attributes Elements
Systems of
thought
Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models,
ideologies, rationalities, etc.
Forms of
knowledge
Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites,
experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.
Finance
Business models, investment, venture capital,
grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.
Political
economy
Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion,
ethical considerations, etc.
Govern-
mentalities /
Legalities
Data standards, file formats, system requirements,
protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual
property regimes, etc.
Materialities &
infrastructures
Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors,
scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.
Practices
Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours,
scientific conventions, etc.
Organisations
& institutions
Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers,
retailers, government agencies, universities,
conferences, clubs and societies, committees and
boards, communities of practice, etc.
Subjectivities
& communities
Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts,
scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.
Places
Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms,
business parks, etc, and their agglomerations
Marketplace
For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs,
maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations,
etc.
Systemsofthought

7. Making up People & Spaces
(Modified Ian Hacking Framework of Making Up People, Lauriault 2012)

8. 3. Case Studies

9. CS1-Re-Ontologizing the City

10. Skin of the earth Object modelling
5 skin of the earth objects
• Ways
• Water
• Vegetation
• Artificial
• Exposed
• Z-Layer
• Superimposed
• Networked
• Grouped
• GDF1 GDF2 centrelines
• Sites – shopping maps
• Locals - Wicklow Mountains
• Boundaries
Seamless, topologically consistent blanket of polygons covers
the entire surface of Ireland w/no holes or gaps

11. CS1 Plan - Re-Ontologizing the City
GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE: National, Dublin
OBJECTS OF STUDY:
Study of the OSI data assemblage of the PRIME2, examine how Dublin
and city/urban areas are understood in the new object oriented data
model, assess if this changes how cities are modelled and then acted
upon.
TIME FRAME: 2014-2018
DATA and INFORMATION Collection:
CASE STUDY OUTPUTS:
A. 1 Case Study Report
B. Data Assemblage
C. Tracing the Production of Space - Making up Dublin, genealogy from
class to object
D. Academic Publications
CS DATA MANAGEMENT and ETHICS:

12. CS2-Measuring Openness in the City

13. Research
Data
Canada
Archiving, Management and
Preservation of Geospatial Data
National Consultation on Access to
Scientific Data Final Report
(NCASRD)
20101990 1995 2000 2005
National Data Archive
Consultation
(SSHRC)
Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap
Analysis
The dissemination of government geographic
data in Canada: guide to best practices
Research Data Strategy Working Group
Standing Committee on Industry, Science and
Technology
Toward a National Digital Information
Strategy: Mapping the Current Situation in
Canada (LAC)
Canadian Digital
Information
Strategy (CDIS)
(LAC)
IPY
1985 2014
Open Data
Consultations
Mapping the
Data
Landscape:
Report of the
2011
Canadian
Research
Data
Summit
Digital Economy
Consultation,
Industry Canada
Community Data
Roundtable
Privacy (Geo)
Sensitive Data (Geo)
Resolution of
Canada’s Access to
Information and
Privacy
Commissioners
Geomatics Accord Signed
Canadian Geospatial Data Policy
Liberating the Data
Proposal
VGI Primer
Cloud (Geo)
OD
Advisory
Panel
OGP
G8
Subjectivities &
Forms of Knowledge
• Policies
• Reports
• Proposals
• Recommendations
• Consultation
2008
MiningWatch Canada &
Great Lakes United by
Ecojustice (formerly Sierra
Legal Defence
Fund).Demand release of
mine tailing data
Digital Infrastructure
Leadership Council

14. 20101990 1995 2000 20051985 2014
Data
Liberation
Initiative (DLI)
Geogratis Data
Portal
GeoBase
Canadian
Internet
Public Policy
Clinic
Maps Data and
Government Information
Services (MADGIC)
Carleton U
GeoConnections
GeoGratis
Census Data
Consortium
Canadian Association
of Research Libraries
(CARL)
Atlas of Canada
Online (1st)
CeoNet
Discovery
Portal
Research
Data
Network
How'd they Vote
CivicAccess.ca
Campaign for
Open
Government
(FIPA)
Canadian
Association
of Public
Data Users
Datalibre.ca
VisibleGovernment.ca
I Believe in Open Campaign
Change Camps Start
Nanaimo BC
Toronto
Open Data Portals
Edmonton
Mississauga launches open data
Citizen Factory
B.C.'s Climate Change Data Catalogue
Open Parliament
DatadotGC.ca
Ottawa
Ottawa, Prince George, Medicine Hat
Data.gc.ca
Global TV
Hansard in XML
Langley
Let the Data Flow
GovCamp
Fed. Expenses
Montreal Ouvert
Fed.Gov. Travel
and Hospitality
Expenses
London
Hamilton
Windsor
Open Data
Hackfest
Aid Agency
Proactive.ca
DataBC
Hacking
Health
14 Cities
Quebec
Ontario
OGP
3 Cities
Alberta
G8
Community Data
Program
FCM Quality of Life
Reporting System
Geographic and
Numeric
Information
System (GANIS)
Materialities / Infrastructures
• Consortia
• Portals/Catalogs
• Maps
• Open data/Open Gov Events
2009

15. CS2 Plan - Measuring Openness in the City
GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE:
Dublin, R.O.Ireland, Northern Ireland, Ottawa & Montreal, Canada
TIME FRAME: 2014-2018
DATA and INFORMATION Collection
CASE STUDY OUTPUTS:
A. 2 site specific city case studies on Open data and Open Government
B. Data Assemblages & Landscape
o Generalized landscape of the types of actors involved in Open Data
o 2 jurisdictionally based data assemblages
o 1 generalized open data assemblage based on both geographic locations
C. Open Data discourse Analysis – Pitch, Indicators & Performance systems,
City and National Strategies
D. Academic Papers
CS DATA MANAGEMENT and ETHICS:

16. CS3 -The making of homeless people
and calculating homelessness
http://hifis.hrsdc.gc.ca/index-eng.shtml
http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/pub/Counting_Homelessness.pdf
http://homeless.samhsa.gov/ResourceFiles/Survey
ofhomelessnessinCanada-
SteetcomponentPilot_Test.pdf

17. Municipal Data Collection Tool

18. CS3 -The making of homeless people
and calculating homelessness
https://www.hudexchange.info/hmis/ http://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/homelessness/e
mergency-shelter-commission/Pages/Annual-
Homeless-Census.aspx
https://www.census.gov
/prod/www/nshapc/N
SHAPC4.html

19. CS3 -The making of homeless people
and calculating homelessness
http://www.homelessdublin.ie/pass
http://www.dublincity.ie/official-street-count-figures-rough-
sleeping-winter-2014-across-dublin-region
http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/ho
melesspersonsinirelandaspecialcensus2011report/

20. Homeless Data dissemination
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/

21. CS3 Plan - The making of homeless
people and calculating homelessness
GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE:
Dublin, Ireland, Boston, US, Ottawa, Canada
TIME FRAME: 2014-2018
DATA and INFORMATION Collection
CASE STUDY OUTPUTS:
A. 3 CS reports with accompanying data, information and
literature including
B. 3 Data Assemblages & Comparative Analysis
C. Construction of homeless people and homelessness
3 homelessness data classification genealogies & Comparison
D. Academic Papers
Case Study Data Management and Ethics

22. Power/knowledge

23. Kitchin’s Data Assemblage
Attributes Elements
Systems of
thought
Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models,
ideologies, rationalities, etc.
Forms of
knowledge
Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites,
experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.
Finance
Business models, investment, venture capital,
grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.
Political
economy
Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion,
ethical considerations, etc.
Govern-
mentalities /
Legalities
Data standards, file formats, system requirements,
protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual
property regimes, etc.
Materialities &
infrastructures
Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors,
scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.
Practices
Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours,
scientific conventions, etc.
Organisations
& institutions
Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers,
retailers, government agencies, universities,
conferences, clubs and societies, committees and
boards, communities of practice, etc.
Subjectivities
& communities
Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts,
scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.
Places
Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms,
business parks, etc, and their agglomerations
Marketplace
For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs,
maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations,
etc.
Systemsofthought

24. Q & A
Acknowledgements
Programmable City project research is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award
(ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY).