Local open data reaping the benefits

Mark Braggins 21st April 2015

Local Open Data: reaping the benefits

Sixteen local open data champions

Local Authority Champion SiteBarnet Open BarnetBirmingham Birmingham Data FactoryBristol Open Data BristolCambridgeshire Cambridgeshire InsightDevon Devon Data LoomGlasgow Open GlasgowHampshire Hampshire HubLambeth Lambeth in NumbersLeeds Leeds Data MillLondon London Data StoreManchester DataGMWindsor & Maidenhead DataTAPRedbridge DataShareSunderland Local Public DataSurrey Surrey Open dataTrafford Info Trafford

Momentum building throughout the UK

Screenshot from Owen Boswarva’s UK Local GovernmentOpen Data Resources interactive map

Most champions have data stores - or are building them

Local open data – any metaphors?

How about Food?

• Ingredients• Specialties• Cuisines• Themes• Recipes• Kitchens• Restaurants• Take-aways

Image of Bothy Threads Food Map of the British Isles courtesy of hixxybabe on ebay

Local open data – any metaphors?

How about Agriculture?

• Sowing seeds / planting crops • Different local conditions

• Climate (political, organisational)• Soil (stony, fertile etc)• Expertise• Tools and technology• People / community

Harvesting of oats in Jølster, Norway ca. 1890 (Photo: Axel Lindahl/Norwegian Museum of Cultural History) via Wikipedia

Postcard from Hampshire

Data, information, insight, news, views, and initiatives

http://www.hampshirehub.net/initiatives

Helping see the wood from the treesBlog post by Mike Sedgewick on Chandler’s Ford Today (local web site):A Hero of Trees - Richard St. Barbe Baker

Screenshot from Steve Peters’ Local Data Discovery app

Screenshot from DATA.GOV.UK previewingTree Preservation Orders for the whole of Eastleigh

WuDoWuD

• Historic open data from multiple sources

• Environmental conditions leading up to severe weather events

• Identify trigger points• Update with more recent / current data• Use to inform decision-making• Potential to save lives, improve

efficiency and reduce costs

Screenshot from STFC case study featuring WuDoWuD from Know Now Information http://www.kn-i.com/

Landscape Watch Hampshire

Crowdsourcing landscape changefrom archived aerial photography

Capture the change information as data

Publish the output on Hampshire Hub as open data

Screenshot from Landscape Watch Hampshire, which is currently undergoing Alpha testing

Open Data Camp

• Open Data Camp - The first UK unconference for open data

• Lots of output: inc 20+ blog posts

• It won’t be the last

• Next one ‘up north’ in the Autumn

• In the meantime, there’s BlueLightCamp 6-7 June in Birmingham (Open Data Camp will be there!)

GP Pressure Map, created at Open Data Camp

To what extent are we reaping the benefits?

• Lots of progress - loads of open data out there (both local and national)

• Local open data champions network

• Case studies are being created and shared

• Together we are stronger

• Great momentum, but...

• It’s still early days

• Lots still to do (e.g. standards, sustainable business models, sources of funding, compelling business cases)

Steam engine tractors with threshing machines, Latvia, 1930.-ies. Photo courtesy of Valmiera's museum, via Valters Grivins Flickr.

Thank You

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Photo credit opening slide

• Medieval farming: This image depicts what it may have been like to be part of a medieval farming family. Included in Kulturgeschichtliche Bilder no.5, Kempen (Verlag Dr. te Neues), undated (c.1960). Online, courtesy Dortmund, Westfaelisches Schulmuseum (Westphalian School Museum in Dortmund, Germany).