manchester opendata
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A Quick Look Round CouncilData Stores
Tony HirstDepartment of Communication and
SystemsThe Open University
data NOT information
Cf. syndication
DiscoverRequestReuse3
Archival dataCurrent data
Verticals
Who’s the data for?
Does the data flow?
http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/births-and-fertility-rates
http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/births-and-fertility-rates.csv
http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/births-and-fertility-rates.xml
CSV
So CSV helps simple data flow…
=importData(“CSV_URL”)
The spreadsheet becomes
A DATABASE
=userDefinedFormula()
KML
So KML helps geo-data flow…
Malleable data views
Can you query it?
query:
:response
http://bit.ly/9sElKU
http://bit.ly/aiWnfe
Timely data…
Live data…
Linked Data™
Distinct identities?
So who speaks SPARQL?
Whose data is it anyway?
Eat your own dog food
Use YOUR data:
- to power the council website- in everyday council operations- when working with organisations under council control
can I get council info as data?
can I query the data?
can I get the data out in a standard format?
Letter to Government departments on opening up data
Monday 31 May 2010
Local government spending transparency
New items of local government spending over £500 to be published on a council-by-council basis from January 2011.
New local government contracts and tender documents for expenditure over £500 to be published in full from January 2011.
Monday 31 May 2010
[T]he Deputy Prime Minister and I would be grateful if departments would take immediate action to meet this timetable for data transparency, and to ensure that any data published is made available in an open format so that it can be re-used by third parties. From July 2010, government departments and agencies should ensure that any information published includes the underlying data in an open standardised format.
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