best practise: why vienna has open data

Best Practise: Why Vienna has Open Data 20. September 2011, Leuven Open Data MeetUp, Belgium

Martin Kaltenböck, CMCSemantic Web Company – http://www.semantic-web.atOKFN / OGD Austria – http://www.opendata.at LOD2 Project – http://www.lod2.eu

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Best Practise: Open Government Vienna

Open Data Meetup - Leuven / Belgium

DI Johann MittheiszCity of Vienna – Chief Information Officer

Executive Group for Organisation, Safety and SecurityInformation and Communication tTchnology

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Open Government Vienna

• Vienna already offers an E Government portal „virtual administrative office“ – 582 e-Government pages in corporate design– 188 online forms– 8 applications to make appointments online

• Vienna made an essential contribution for the multiple European E Government champion's title of Austria

• Vienna extends and improves the E Government offer– for the benefit of the citizens – as an added value for the business location Vienna

• Open Government is the consistent refinement of E Government

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Open Government Commitment

• Vienna says „Yes“ to Open Government

• Open Government ist part of the Viennese government programm, November 2010!

• Vienna doesn‘t hide the dataexcept for – individual-related data (data protection)– critical infrastructure (security)

• Open Government Data is part of Open Government

• Formation of „Cooperation OGD Österreich“, July2011

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ICT-principles / I for Information

• March 2011 – Official „Yes“ to Open Government

• May 2011 – press conference and launch of Open Government portal Vienna– overview about existing Government Services, e.g. city

map with more than 100 layers: www.wien.gv.at/ikt/opengov/

– Open Government Data Catalogue: data.wien.gv.at

• June 2011 – OGD phase 2: more data

• October 2011 – OGD phase 3: ?

• Outreach: LOD evaluation & data on demand

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http://www.wien.gv.at/ikt/opengov/

http://data.wien.gv.at/

ICT-principles / C for Communication

• Open Government Portal– contact adresses– Feedback channels– forum for discussion

• Monthly Open Government Platform Vienna– May, June, July 2011– 4th platform: September 29th 2011 & live stream

• OGD2011 – Open Data Conference Vienna– 16 June 2011

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ICT-principles / Transaction

• On-going development of the OGD catalogue with simple copyright model:– CC BY 3.0 Austria

• Establishment of priorities of provided data with an online survey (running over summer 2011)

• Content Award Vienna 2011: Open Data Special Award– Award Presentation November 2011

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http://www.wien.gv.at/arbeit-wirtschaft/content-award.html

Insights gained – Success Stories

• Open Government is the consistent refinement of E Government• Open Government Data is part of Open Government• Vienna does not hide the data!• Vienna formed proactively• Launch on May 17th 2011• Positive echo of the citizens, the economy and from the

community• Vienna reacted & reactes quickly on demands• Already 12 applications developed with OGD Vienna• Online survey:Extensive, certified, competent feedback

• Award by EPSI Alliance for Open Data Activities• 1st Prize for most innovative eGovernment project at the

eGovernment competition 2011: Germany – Switzerland - Austria

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Open Government Portal www.wien.gv.at/opengov

http://www.data.wien.gv.at

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http://www.data.wien.gv.at/

DI Johann Mittheisz

[email protected]

www.wien.gv.at/egov www.wien.gv.at/opengov data.wien.gv.at

For the benefit of the citizens As an added value for the business location Vienna

Why Vienna has Open Data?

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http://www.wien.gv.at/egov

http://www.wien.gv.at/opengov

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Open Data for Local Governments

What is the benefit? Why is it important?

• Strengthen Democracy in your local area

• Strengthen Transparency & Trust & Openness

• Enable participation & collaboration

• Along all stakeholders (invite & involve them!!)politics, public administration, citizens, inductry, media, academia

• Open Data showcases the work & efforts of public administration

• Strengthen local & regional economy & enable innovation

• Use the opportunity of public administration benchmark

• Use also the opportunity that your data is used in international context

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Open Data in Austria

What happened so far!

• Open Government is BLSG topic (local – regional – province - national govenments)• Open Data on priority list of KIG (Competence Center for Internet Society)• Data Portal of the City of Vienna since May 2011• Data Portal of the City of Linz comes early October 2011

• Cooperation OGD Austria since Juli 2011: Recommendations for Open Data in Austria (National Government, Cities of Vienna , Linz, Salzburg & Graz, plus: OGD / OKF Austria and IOÖ = Austrian Industry )

What comes next?!

• Open Data Portal of national government in planning phase• 1st set of recommendations by Cooperation OGD Austria published• 4. October 2011, Workshop for data holders on CKAN, meta data & LOD publishing• 12. October 2011, Workshop open data for Austrian ministries (13 ministries)

BUT - What is still missing! The official Committment on highest political level!!


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Recommendations: Cooperation OGD

Objectives & 1st results of the Cooperation OGD Austria

• Recommended License: CC-BY -3.0 (AT) & input on version 4.0 for gov. usage• Domain / URL for Open Data: data.NAME.gv.at (e.g. data.linz.gv.at)• Open Source software preferred• Recommended catalogue software: CKAN – the data hub (OKFN)• Recommendations on fomats, meta data, URIs, LOD usage• Federal Chancellery co-ordinates a reference document on open data• Screening ,evaluation, stay in touch with international initiatives & EU activities• Guarantee interoperability of Open Data in Austria & international

Recommendations in progress

• Meta Data structure for Open Data in Austria• URI schema for Open Data in Austria• Recommendations for formats, data monitoring mechanisms and LOD usage


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Workshop Participants

•10 to 15 participants per workshop (113 requests, 50 participants)•Representative sample inside of the stakeholder group•Diversity in opinion inside of the groups preferred•Gender distribution minded


OGD Requirement Analysis

Politics

•Al parties of the National Council•Federal Gov•State Gov•Cities•Communities•Chambers

•27 requests•9 participants

Civil Society

•NPO / NGO•Data privacy•Technology assesment•Human rights•Citizens movements


Economy

•Mix of branches•Associations•Apps market•Data market•Data integrators


Administration

•Federal Gov.•State Gov.•Cities•Communities•Extended digits•Associations


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SWOT Analysis of Open Government Data in Austria from the viewpoint of the 4 stakeholder groups (excerpt)


SWOT analysis of the 4 groups

Strength

•Promotion of the economy•Performance: politics & administration•Transparency, participation, trust•Internal transparency – internal OGD•Information for ALL

Opportunities

•Participation as a chance•Economical impact•Support of innovation•Role model of public administration•New user groups for the data

Weakness

•Data Quality•Digital Divide, media literacy•No economic impact•Legal framework•No standards available•Political committment missing

Threads

•Privacy•Discrimination concering access•Questions about liability•Mis-interpretation of data•Commercialisation of administration•OGD threats existing bus. models

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Requirements of OGD in Austria

1. Single Point of Access – a data portal for Austria!

2. Involvement & balancing: BLSG: federal gov – state gov – cities - communities!

3. Active collaboration and communication of all (6) stakeholder groups!

4. Harmonisation and standardisation of data, formats, interfaces, meta data (in international context)!

5. Data can also be provided by economy and academia!

6. National and international Benchmark (as a chance)!

7. Guidelines & Best Practises should be developed and provided!

8. Committment for Open Data from highest political level needed!

9. Concrete terms of use, cost models, licenses, SLAs should be developed

10. 1. Phase: open basis data (low hanging fruits)2. Phase: set up on lessons learned of phase 1!


OGD Requirements Circle

The following 11 topics as a partial aspect of Open Government Data could be identified & described on the basis of the requirement analysis:

1. Need for Definitions

2. Open Government: Transparency and Democracy, Participation & Collaboration

3. Legal Issues

4. Impact on Society

5. Innovation and Knowledge Society

6. Impact on Economy / Industry

7. Licenses, Models for Exploitation, Terms of Use

8. Data relevant Aspects

9. Data Governance

10. Applications and Use Cases

11. Technological Aspects


OGD White Book Austria

OGD White Book Austria - Table of Content

•Introduction & Definition

•Requirement Analysis of OGD for Austria

•Requirement Circle of OGD

•Open Government Data Guidelines for Austria

•Proceedings of the OGD2011 Conference 16. June 2011 in Vienna

•Available as a living wiki document (from October 2011: www.ogd2011.at)

… very sorry only available in German language

Order your book copy now!

•Order Form http://www.ogd2011.at/weissbuch

•Order at OGD events

•Send email: [email protected]

OGD Camp 2011 – Warsaw, Poland


Fact Box

20. – 21. October 2011 Warsaw, Polandhttp://www.ogdcamp.org

PLUS: 1 week of satellite events around the camp

Call for Participation openhttp://ogdcamp.org/cfp/

Registration openhttp://ogdcamp.org/register/

LOD2 co-ordinates a half day workshop on Best Practises in Linked Government Data together with GLD W3C working group!

Infos & Kontakt

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Martin Kaltenböck, CMCSemantic Web Company GmbH (SWC)

Lerchenfelder Gürtel 43A-1160 Wien

Semantic Web Company (SWC)

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Phone: +43-1-402 12 35–25

Open Government Data OGD Austria

(Austrian Chapter of OKFN)

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OGD Camp2011http://www.ogdcamp.org

LOD2Creating Knowledge out

of Interlinked Data

Webhttp://www.lod2.eu

OGD Surveyhttp://survey.lod2.eu


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Services of SWC around OGD

Our activities in the area of Linked Open Government Data are embedded in a international network of commercial and governmental organisations that bring forward the most important improvements with regards to technological and strategic issues in the field.

• (Linked) Open Government Data – Strategy Formation & Consulting

• Development of concrete (Business) Use Cases (publish & consume)

• Measures, Methods & Technologies for the Implementation of the project (Data Governance, Licenses, Studies, Meta Data & Data Management, Technologies)

• Community & Awareness Building Promotion of the Open (Government) Data project (Surveys, Competition et al.)

• Buildup of Expertise and Key People inside of an Organisation (Trainings & Workshops) • Project Guidance, Execution & Evaluation


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