Presentation given at the Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw October 2011. It discusses how Norway is approaching the task of opening up and reusing more public sector data. It also gives a detailed run through of DIFIs data hotel

1. The Norwegian Approach to
increasing Public Sector Open
Data
Heather Broomfield
Erlend Klakegg Bergheim
Open Government Data Camp 2011
@hbroom @klakegg

2. Development through
collaboration
Difi shall contribute to the
development and renewal
of the public sector, shall
strengthen coordination
and provide common
solutions.
Hans Christian Holte, director of Difi
The Agency for Public Management and
Oslo
eGovernment (Difi)

3. Diving straight in…
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4. The Norwegian approach
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5. Policy & Law
2004 Report ‘From Use to Reuse’
2009 PSI Directive transposed and into force
2011 Raw data must be made available in
machine readable format
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6. Quality on the net
Over 700
Public
websites
Highly
respected!
From 2012
Open data an
indicator!
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7. Building the Community
25 October 2011 Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT

8. Support for data owners!
Low cost infrastructure for the distribution of raw data
Norwegian Licence for Open Data (NLOD)
Licence
Data catalogue
Infrastructure
& support
Data hotel
data.norway.no
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9. Data.norway.no
Data register
Support for owners & reusers

10. Check in to the data hotel!
Open source
https://github.com/difi/datahotel
https://github.com/difi/datahotel-java
"scratching your own itch"
Created based on our needs, both as
dataowners and as developers (reusers).
Open process
The issue tracker at GitHub is the one we are
going to use.
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11. Select context
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12. Select context
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13. Create new dataset
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14. Name and shortname
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15. Upload new version
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16. Upload new version
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17. Short review
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18. Does the file have a header?
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19. Field 1
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20. Name
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21. Shortname (for url)
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22. Description
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23. Selecting definition
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24. Select functionality
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25. Field 2
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26. Field 3
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27. Field 4
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28. Field 5
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29. Publish!
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30. Available in minutes
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31. Available in minutes
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32. Information about dataset
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33. Multiple formats
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34. Listing (with pagination)
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35. Search
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36. Query
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37. Visit the hotel!
http://hotell.difi.no/
https://github.com/difi/datahotel
Read more about the hotel on
http://data.norway.no/
open@difi.no
@datahotell
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