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From CDs to web servicesThe future of government
Ian CoadyOffice for National Statistics
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“Location is the connective tissue of open data” – Sir Nigel Shadbolt
“Everything happens somewhere” – UK Location Strategy
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Previous situation
• Geographic Referencing Infrastructure
• CD/DVD release
• Delivery by post
• Products disseminated across different software
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So what did we want to do?
• Deliver our data online
• Migration to web services
• INSPIRE compliance
• Have a hosted solution
• Machine-readable data
• A single authoritative data source
What do you mean the system is
outside the ONS infrastructure?!!
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The Perfect Policy Storm
OPEN – Government push towards open data
INSPIRE – Legal mandate for publishing geographic data at the European level
CENSUS – Requirement to publish Census geographic boundaries and other products
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END OF THE LINE?......
procurement
information assurance
IT
Policy/infrastructure
finance
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So what did we do?
• Where we could we worked around the rules
• ….where we couldn’t work around the rules we challenged them….
• …and where we couldn’t challenge the rules we worked within them.
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Triplestore
GIS Server- published products- product maintenance
published products
API API
GIS
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LD Explorer Product Explorer
3rd party application
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Open Geography
ONS WebsiteLinked Data
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Case Study
The use of geographic web services to disseminate statistical geography data and meet
the requirements of INSPIRE
The Open Geography Geoportal
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The ability to discover data in a number of flexible ways
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View and download data or extract metadata
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Using view services to visualise boundary sets and extract data as required
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Case Study
The use of geographic web services to support the finding and analysis of government statistics
The ONS Data Explorer
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Enabling users to understand geographical area boundaries in relation to their location, and us this for selection of relevant datasets
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Enabling users to refine data selections by area
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Using maps to visualise data and provide context to help understand statistics
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In summary…..
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Ian CoadyGeography Policy and Research ManagerTel: 01329 447897 E-Mail: [email protected]
@ONSgeography
ANY QUESTIONS???
Callum FosterWeb Data Access Project
Tel: 01329 444030 E-Mail: [email protected]