Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen Open / Linked Data Initiatives:SLDIG - Edinburgh 10 Sept 2014
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Introduction
• Code For Europe in Scotland
• Detail of Aberdeen’s Approach (AS)
• CodeTheCity
• Linked Data
• Scottish Govt – Open Data strategy
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Code For Europe
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Code For Europe (2)
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Code For Europe (3)
Aberdeen’s Three Phases
1. Technical infrastructure – Open311
2. Sports and physical activities
3. Community involvement
Phase 1– Original Plan
• Create Open311 server
• Open311 server queries existing bespoke Aberdeen City Council systems
• Report issues via Open311
Reality stepped in
Phase 1– Plan B
• Develop Open311 server using Sinatra
• Populated server with
– Schools data
– Community Centres data
– Car Park data
• Expand beyond the Open311 Inquiry v1 specification
Involve Everyone
Involve Everyone
• Let the people decide the problems they wanted solving
• Excited to get what they want instead of given something they didn’t want
• People who didn’t attend still speaking excitedly about the event and its impact
Demo Map
Using Car Park data
Phase 2– Proof of Concept
• Capture the data by hand
– Scrapping from websites
– Manually typing in from PDFs
Phase 2– Proof of Concept
Phase 2– Live Data
Phase 2
• Activity discovery
• Crowd source sweat levels
• Mobile app
• Web app for Health Professionals
Phase 3
• We have community centres data
• Identify what we can do with it
Linked Data
• Implement a layer within the server to provide all the data in a Linked Data format
Links
• Test Open311 server -http://open311.xoverto.com
• MatchTheCity server –http://matchthecity.herokuapp.com
• CodeTheCity - http://codethecity.org
• Achieving social good• Improving local services• Sharing skills and knowledge across disciplines• Using and creating open data and Open
Government Data (OGD)• Open source• Quick delivery of real results
18th-19th October2014Meston Building
Old Aberdeen CampusUniversity of Aberdeen
CodeTheCity.org
• Code for Europe Fellows attending from around Scotland
18th-19th October2014Meston Building
Old Aberdeen CampusUniversity of Aberdeen
CodeTheCity.org
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CodeTheCity
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CodeTheCity
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Linked Data – Smart Journey
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Smart Journey (2)
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Smart Journey (3)
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What else?
• Data repository
• Scottish Government Open Data
strategy
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Useful Links
• Smart Journey: http://smartjourney.co.uk
• C4E: http://codeforeurope.net/
• Commons For Europe: http://commonsforeurope.net/
• C4E Github: https://github.com/codeforeurope
• CodeTheCity(CTC): http://codethecity.org
• Eventifier for CTC:
http://eventifier.com/event/codethecity/popular
• SmartJourney data: http://data.smartjourney.co.uk/
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Contact details & photo credits
• Ian [email protected]
+44 1224 522830
@watty62
• Andrew [email protected]
@symboticaandrew
