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Implementing a Local Government Open Data Portal A Roscommon County Council Case Study Barry Doyle: GIS Manager Data Open Doors Summit – 7 th May 2015

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Implementing a Local Government Open Data Portal

A Roscommon County Council

Case Study

Barry Doyle: GIS Manager

Data Open Doors Summit – 7th May 2015

County Roscommon

• 9th largest County

• Population: 64,065 (2011)– 9% increase from 2006

– 3rd lowest Pop. Density

– 1.4% of National Population

– High levels of out-migration

• 2,201 active enterprises (excluding farming)– Low entrepreneurship rate

– Unemployment higher then average (13.5%)

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My Role

• GIS Manager– Responsible for the development and implementation

of the Councils corporate GIS and GI Management strategies• Spatial Data becoming more integrated into mainstream

systems and processes

– Implementation a Council SDI• Treat data as a corporate asset

• Data Standards

• Data Sharing

– Deal with external and internal data requests

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The Aim

To create and implement a Open Data Portal for Roscommon to make available, in accordance with open data principles and standards, datasets of public interest created and managed by Roscommon County Council

Short term objectives• Minimum 3* Open Data• Put something out there that would get noticed

and could be built on

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The Why

• Just one more element of Data Management Strategy

– Build on work done in establishing an internal SDI

– Is just an extension of good information management

• Build on knowledge gained through involvement in various projects and initiatives:

– INSPIRE

– MyPlan

– LG SDI

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The Why

• Developed an appreciation of the principles of Open Data– Openness & Transparency

– Citizen Participation

– Economic Development

• Growing Irish knowledge and support base – Fingal Open Data

– Dublinked

– Civil Society

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The Why

• Is now Government Policy

– Supporting strategies and infrastructure

• Provides benefits to Roscommon County Council

– Reduction in effort dealing with data requests

– Single source of data

– Confidence in data being supplied

– Reputation

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The How

• ArcGIS Server Platform implemented including ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Account

• AGOL Open Data application template became available in 2014. No additional cost.

• Works with published AGOL feature services, ArcGIS Server map and feature services, CSV files

• Single data source– Much data already published to AGOL – Builds on existing workflows– No need to export and republish

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The How

• Was able to configure the portal within a short time frame with minimal resource and no developer requirements

– Focus remained on the data management elements

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The How

• Lots of functionality out of the box

– Provides 3 key capabilities:

1. Discoverable - text and map based searching

2. Explorable –linked map and tabular views, charts and graphs, ability to filter

3. Accessible –download as common data formats (CSV, KML, SHAPE) and developer API’s (GeoJSON, GeoServices)

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The HowStep by Step1. Reviewed best practice

– Open Data Publication Guidebook2. Reviewed existing portals

– Content / Design3. Selected Datasets

– Those Already published to AGOL– Those of value (FOI requests, etc)

4. Built and modified publishing workflows5. Selected a Licence

– PSI6. Created the Portal7. Created the Metadata (ongoing)

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Demo

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http://roscommon.roscoco.opendata.arcgis.com/

Next Steps

• Work for compliance with Open Data Technical Framework– Open Data Licence

– Metadata• DCAT-AP (Geospatial elements)

• More Data– More Non-Spatial data

– More complex data

– More dynamic data

• Site re-design

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Thank You

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