Using Open Data & Birmingham's Open Data Factory

Using Open DataBirmingham Data Factory

Heike Schuster-James – Programme Manager Digital Birmingham

20/03/2015

What is Open Data?

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

[OKF Open Data Handbook]

• ‘non-personal’ by default• Availability and Access: free of charge or at reasonable

reproduction cost, download over the internet, in convenient and modifiable form

• Reuse and Redistribution: licence permits reuse and redistribution including mashing with other datasets

• Universal Participation: no limitation by purpose such as ‘non-commercial’ or ‘education only’

How can it add value?

• Growing resource at no cost • Add local knowledge to your intelligence• Stand-alone use to gain insights• Download and mix with own sources• Use real-data to test new apps • Encourage others to share• Must check quality

Indices of Multiple DeprivationStand-alone use of national data, free of charge, map out your customer base, download and create your own graphs

Open Street Map

Local knowledge, accurate, up-to-date, API

DataShine

Understand your locality

Glasgow Footfall Data

Glasgow council convinced retailers and other business to share

Birmingham Data Factoryhttps://data.birmingham.gov.uk: search by organisation, group, keyword

Data available

Currently – 20 datasets:•Business rates, Energy consumption, FOI responses and datasets that Government requests e.g. spent above £500, charity funding•Access to traffic management data on requestSoon to be released:•Cooperation with Centro •Opticities and Open Transport Network projects: location data for parking, public transport, traffic info•Social housing stock

data.gov.uk

data.gov.uk

• Big national datasets• 1326 Publishers from Cabinet Office to

Supreme Court• Household income, crime statistics, energy

display certificates, construction industry stats, M&A of UK companies, retail sales…

Requesting data

Data.gov.uk: register and request, supported by ODUG (open data user group)

Local councils and public sector: Submit FOI request for data (Right to Data), specify you’d like it to be published as ‘open data’