Open Data Index 2015

Rob Davidson@bobbledavidson

INDEX.OKFN.ORG

INDEX.OKFN.ORG/PLACE

• Transport Timetables• Government budget (future)• Government spending (past)• Election results• Company register• National map• National statistics• Legislation• Location datasets• Pollutant emissions

• Procurement tenders• Water quality• Health performance• Land ownership• Weather forecast

GLOBAL.CENSUS.OKFN.ORG

Transport Timetable data• National level service

– Regulated by national gov• Time of operating• Time of leaving first station and

arriving last station• Updated at least once/year

• HK Gov has route info but no time• MTR provides first/last train info• Timetable= every 2 mins?• Timetable= bus leaves when full?

• ‘Data does not exist’

BUDGET…?

Planned budget: divided by department and sub-department: sort ofUpdated once a year: hopefully Includes descriptions of budget sections: in PDF & CSV

Criteria Answer Criteria Answer

Exists? Yes! URL budget.gov.hk/2015/eng/estimates1.html

Publisher FSTB Machine readable? Yes… CSV (but also PDF)

Title Data for ‘the Estimates’

Format? CSV

In digital form? Yes! Available in bulk? Yes – not using web form!

Publicly available? Yes! Open License? No – Data.Gov.Hk license

Free? Yes! Timely/up-to-date? Yes

Online? Yes! Comments

20th September 2015

GLOBAL.CENSUS.OKFN.ORG

global.census.okfn.org/tutorial/