Open data - free machine-readable information from the public sector

Open data - free machine-readable information

from the public sector

Livar Bergheim, Difi Bergen, Fishackathon 2016-04-22

Agenda

• Opne data - what and why?

• Some examples of useful open data and APIs

• Where to find data — data.norge.no

Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT

Difi – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

• Established 2008

• Under the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (KMD)

• Ca. 285 employees in Leikanger and Oslo

• Mandate:develop, simplify and renew public sector

• Has the state government as primary target group

Screenshot: http://www.yr.no/artikkel/_-dei-syntes-vi-var-nokre-tullebukkar-1.12542740

«Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.»

Skjermbilete av CSV-datasett, vist i Excel: http://data.norge.no/data/stavanger-kommune/

skoleruter-barne-og-ungdomsskolene-i-stavanger-kommune

Public sector data• Data financed by society, and governed on behalf of society.

• Useful for others, both private and public sector.

• Public sector neither can or should do everything themselves.

• Open data is one way to make public sector information available for re-use.

• Usually free.

Why open public sector data?

• Transparency and democratisation

• New or improved private products and services

• Improved public sector

• Datasetta i det nasjonale kartgrunnlaget (N50, N250, N500, N1000, N2000 og N5000 Kartdata og Rasterdata)

• Administrative grenser

• Vegdata med adresser

• Digitale terrengmodellar

• Stadnamndata

• Historiske kart

• Sjødata

• Tur- og friluftsruter

• Offisielle adresser

• Geodetiske datasett

• Postsoner og valgkrinsar

• Illustrasjonskart i små målestokkar

Døme på bruk av cache-tenester for kartfliser frå Kartverket - http://bit.ly/1Ii5uKn

Video: Skjermopptak som viser type-ahead på Firmanavn.

http://geo.stordahl.org/enhetsregisteret.html

Where do I begin?• Idea — what datasets do I need?

• Dataset — what can I make with this?

• Organisation — they must have some interesting datasets..

• Learn something — programming language, framework, library etc

• Curious

data.norge.noNational registry of open public sector data

www.europeandataportal.eu

Sharing data doesn’t mean that the data will be used.- Anne Cathrine Frøstrup, managing director, Norwegian Mapping Authority

Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT

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#hack4no 2015. Foto: Statens kartverk

#hack4no 2015. Foto: Statens kartverk

Bilde: http://kartverket.no/om-kartverket/nyheter/Na-kan-du-laste-ned-Norge-i-Minecraft/

• data.norge.nofind datasets and register what you have made with open data

• mention missing dataset : http://bit.ly/1OsMPjI

• Twitter: @opnedata / #opnedata

• opnedata@difi.no