Notes for the Future of Open Data presentation - Local Open Data

SLIDE 1 INTRODUCTION

ME - business development manager R&I HCCLeading the Hampshire Hub programme - partnership of around 20 organisations data and information sharing.Includes all the local authorities, national park authorities, police, fire, army, and DCLG - looking for new partners

My presentation today is looking at future of open data from a local authority / Hampshire Hub perspective and are my own opinions

SLIDE 2 INFORMATION IS EVERYWHEREStating the obvious - and not just information, but data, masses of data, most of it locked away in proprietary systems.

SLIDE 3 PHOTOPhoto from roof of HCC's head office in Winchester, looking across the city to the north east. It was a nice sunny day

Here are some of the data sets we hold - there are many more held by others

SLIDE 4+ auto-play If we were to look at the same view in GIS or web maps we'd see the different layers, which we'd be able to analyse

SLIDE - SUBSETwhat we've just looked at, we've been able to publish some of the data as open data, but it's taken us a while. We've had to apply to OS for exemptionThere's also land supply data which we used to inform our thinking about linked open data (I forgot to put a slide in about that!)

SLIDE - MORE ON THE WAYthere's more on the wayMany of the hub partners are planning authorities, and we applied for Breakthrough fund-ing, and were successfulWe intend to begin that project in November

SLIDE - AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHYOur aerial photography is rather dated - 2005 and is no longer fit for purpose. We've been trying to get it updated for several years, and this year we let a new contract to Blom Aero-films

They flew the entire county over the summer, and have collected high resolution imagery, captured at 12.5cm as well as height data and near infa-red. They are currently processing the data, and partners should have it in November.

The Hampshire Hub partnership has commissioned them to produce a re-sampled version we can publish openly. This will be re-scaled to 25cm resolution, which will be visibly much better quality than available on Google or Bing. We hope to publish by Christmas using the Open Government Licence. We are looking at the practicalities of publishing, as it's very large!

SLIDE - DRIVERS TO PUBLISHLooking more widely across the sector, there are lots of reasons to publish data as open data

Reduced funding and resources are a couple of reasons why organisations are sharing work.

With joint and partnership working comes an even greater need to share With security comes layers of administration

By publishing openly, data is available to everyone, including internal staff, partners, busi-nesses, charities, researchers, academia and the public

SLIDE - MOMENTUMMake it easy to publish

Most people look at something and ask "what's in it for me?"

It would be really valuable to know what data people want

Whilst the default is changing to being open, we have a vast legacy of data which is locked up in systems that weren't designed for openness

We are working with Mark Frank from University of Southampton whose thesis is looking at open data and local democracy. Mark is helping us to identify public demand. We intend to publish the results of his research

EDUCATION AND GUIDANCE - there's lots of senior support for publishing open data, but my impression is there's little awareness and understanding of it throughout the organisation.

I wonder how many people employed in public services have the words "open data" any-where in their job description or objectives?

OPEN DATA COMMUNITIESIn his presentation earlier, Sir Nigel mentioned the Open Data Communities platform from the DCLG, developed with their partners Swirrl.

We are working closely with Steve Peters to reuse content in the Hampshire Hub, and hopefully to reciprocate. We are very keen to link our linked data!

The other definition for Open Data Communities is publishers engaging with local people with an interest in open data. Now that the Hampshire Hub is becoming "real" we are plan-ning a series of hack days. I've attended a few over the last couple of years and there lots of energy out there we can tap in toGreat examples of hacks include

- Open Data Manchester and Future Everything- BlueLightCamp and British APCO

PROCUREMENTwe need something in all system procurements to ensure systems are capable of produc-ing open data as a natural byproduct of normal delivery - as we turn the handle delivering services, open data should "pop out" the other side. No manual intervention should be re-quired.

FUNDINGFunds like the Breakthrough Fund really do help kickstart open data projects which other-wise probably wouldn't get off the ground

SLIDE - FUTUREI personally like the Guardian data store approach, and my own belief is that we'll see more of that in the public sector as well: Newspapers, infographics, intuitive search, articles, conversation, charts, and data