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

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Drupal for National OpenGov...

New  Open-­‐Source  Drupal  CMS

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Sites  for  Every  Commi5ee  (Structured  Data)

Open  Data  (all  $  spent)

LegislaPon  as  Easy  As  Google..

“[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”  AwardsNY  State  CIO  of  the  YearNamed  to  InnovaPon  Week  Top  40  US  CIOs

Results:  Transparency,  Yes...

• 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...

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

Drupal  “DKAN”  DistribuPonOpen-­‐Source  Data  Management  System  (DMS)  

+  Content  Management  System  (CMS)  =  Streamlined  Data  CollaboraPon

The  Proprietary  SaaS  CompePPon...

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

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

• 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?

CKAN  Worldwide

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But  Data.gov.uk,  Data.gov,  HealthData.gov,    OpenGovPlaqorm,  etc.  all  add  Drupal  to  CKAN

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

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

•  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?

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.

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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

• DKAN  DistribuPon

DKAN Datasetmodule

DKAN Datastoremodule

DKAN Components

DKAN Demo

DKAN Demo

DKAN Demo

DKAN Demo

DKAN Demo

DKAN Demo

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DKAN Demo

Early Returns: CivicInfo British Columbia

Early Returns: Data Wisconsin

Early Returns: Puerto Rico

•  Adding  feedback  on  datasets

•  Adding  support  for  data.json

•  Adding  DKAN  modules  to  OpenCivic  Distro

Ongoing Development

•  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?

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Andrew  Hoppin  

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