Open Data : Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire Insight & Release of Data Funding

Open Data

Quality Street Graph

5 Stars of Open Data

★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

Introduction

Cambridgeshire Open-Data Partners:

Open Technology for an Open Partnership

Technology - Cambridgeshire Insight

Technology

• Bring together partners nationally…

• …to develop and implement an inventory XML standard as an extension to the DKAN open source data portal developed as part of the previous Cambridgeshire Open Data Breakthrough Fund project.

• What does that mean?

Technology – A list of what we’ve got

Capability

• Investing in education for partners and data consumers. Explaining complex concepts and developing a new open data centric culture for the County.- Example one: This event!

- Tailored communication / training for key individuals / awareness raising

• Development of data stories: Helping to make the case for open data

• Consultation round two: What do data users want to see released?

Capability

• Business data users and interested public groups, including the development community, and Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP).

• Public sector officers interested in management information/business intelligence for evidence led policy service provision.

• Elected members and management teams to enforce smarter decision making and policy development

• Community and voluntary groups and funding seekers.

• New, co-operative groups of partners who are working together around housing, health and well-being, who need to share and compare data sets to plan together in future, for example using JSNA, SHMA, population, economic, crime and deprivation datasets jointly.

• Local data bloggers & innovators. Those interested in applying their technology skills to the analysis and exploitation of open data to explore and identify local insights and trends.

Capability

• How can I get involved?- suggestions for individual training

(against a published schedule, approved by the steering group)

- Provide an ‘in’ where we can come in and provide an ‘in house’ session

- Input in the follow-up session; what do we need to enhance our capability?

Capacity

• Development of a partnership data release strategy and identification of additional barriers to release amongst partner organisations e.g. support with standardisation. Commitment of funding to remove barriers.

• Dataset development and release in accordance with nationally established data-schemas, establishment of schemes where they don’t currently exist.

• Funding will be allocated amongst partners (subject to the agreement of the detailed spending plan).

Priority will be given to activities that unlock datasets most in demand and needed by the local community, in a sustainable way. Spending will be in accordance with the overall aims and objectives of the fund.

Capacity

• How can I get involved?- suggestions for individual datasets to be released.

• Provide an enthusiasm for releasing data for the first time (or improving standards of existing data)

- Input in the follow-up session; what can we release if given the support that is available?

Capacity

• Key Themes

Marshalling our resources- People- Places

- £££

Supporting communities to help themselves

(building community capacity)

Key Community Challenges:

- Managing sustainable growth

- Reducing inequalities- An aging population

Conclusion

• Participate!

Engage- follow-up session - and beyond

Sell- convince others of the benefits- set an example