Open Data#hacktheelections

@Engagorhttp://bit.ly/hacktheelections

JD Hancock

Agenda

● Open Data● OKFN Belgium● Where do you find it● Use the structure● Best practices & cases● Fresh and old data● Final tip

OPEN DATA

__ http://opendefinition.org/

The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content.

It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open content” and thereby ensures interoperability between different pools of open material.

It can be summed up in the statement that:

“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

OKFN Belgium

Open Knowledge Belgium is a not for profit organisation promoting open knowledge publication and

usage and is an umbrella organisation for Open Knowledge in Belgium.

http://data.gent.be/

http://www.kortrijk.be/opendata/data

http://opendata.antwerpen.be/

Where to find open dataOpen Dataportals

http://data.opendataforum.info/

http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/

Local

Regional

European

http://data.gov.be/ Federal

http://www.verkiezingen.fgov.be/index.php?id=3292&L=1USE the structure Luke

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Best practicesNosElus.beObservatory platform for parliamentary questions asked by the elected officials in Walloon Parliament and in the Chambre.

Dierentheater.beDieren Theater is a project to create a lachambre.be_to_json sausage machine (high grassroot level :) )

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLm5SFLDAj0

Cases

Many-eyes.com: aimed at the development of tools for data journalism, but has some open API’s as well.

Some Flemish newspaper sites are publishing the data behind datavisualisations.http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/17103/Verkiezingen/article/detail/1888779/2014/05/16/N-VA-naar-35-procent-in-Antwerpen-sp-a-tuimelt-diepte-in.dhtm

Fresh Data

EP opens up data on 25/5

XML Fileshttp://www.resultaten-verkiezingen2014.eu/nl/rss-flux.html

_ Voting Data 2009

_ Dummy Data 2014

Old dataBelgian elections XML data from 1848 tot 2004

http://www.ibzdgip.fgov.be/result/nl/main.html

And after 2004?

2007

http://verkiezingen2007.belgium.be/nl/

2009

http://verkiezingen2009.belgium.be/nl/ or http://www.elections.fgov.be/index.php?id=1148&L=1

2010

http://verkiezingen2010.belgium.be or http://www.elections.fgov.be/index.php?id=1655&L=1

No XML though, only PDF :’(

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Tip

Try to combine the output of the Engagor API with other data.

magic

Pieter-Jan Pauwels - @PJPauwelsMathias Van Compernolle - @MVComper

What was that

link again?http://bit.ly/hacktheelecti

onsJD Hancock