Presentation given by Tim Adams Local Government Association LGA LG Inform Plus programme manager on the importance of open data to public sector officers and to local government policy. Given at Sheffield City Open Data Event - 10-July-2015
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Sheffield why open data matters to local government officers - tim adams lga
1. Why Open Data Matters to Local
Government Officers
Enabling capabilities through a
Local Information Infrastructure
Tim Adams
Programme Manager (LGA)
@DrTimAdams
July 2015 www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus
2. Learning through sharing
• share knowledge,
explore and learn about
– how to release, share
and use open data
through projects funded
by local open data
programmes
– the opportunities for
open data use
– the benefit and value of
open data and its use
3. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus
The Landscape
• Local Government in England
– 353 local authorities; 44 fire & rescue
– Delivers over 1500 different services
– Has over 42,000 items of data collected about it
• Data challenges
– Not conventional data publishers
– Business management data
– Internal culture change
• Data Extent
– Good impression of people and places
– Transactional, personal, performance, aggregated data
across 13 functional areas
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Local open data good practice
• Encouraged to use:
– common tools and standards to make data
comparable
– inventory schema to use a common index for
searching data
– publication on data.gov.uk so that data can be
found
– open data certificate: to give data some quality,
reliability and value
5. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus
Overview of the infrastructure
Functions
Services
Datasets
Incentive
scheme
Inventory
Schemas
Aggregator
Councils
Areas
Other...
data.gov.uk
O D I
certificates
NationalLocal
Neighbour
hoods
Classifications
Data
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Objectives of the infrastructure
• Provide useful data – responding to common requests
• Keep it as simple as possible for councils
• Resolve fragmentation, inconsistency and discovery
• Enable data users to accurately interpret data and
aggregate it across councils
Hampshire
Durham
Sevenoaks
Leeds
Craven
Sheffield
Any council
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Councils gained experience in
• setting up platforms for publishing data
• developing digital skills to provide the digital infrastructure
• implementing and getting buy-in for internal sustainable
processes for publishing data
• Using common standards for comparison & combination
• engaging with users, communities, developers and business
to find out data needs and encourage the use of data
• fostering collaboration and co-design internally and externally.
•
• assessing the benefit and value of data use
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URI sets for classification and links
Datasets
Schemas
Data items
Define
structureof
Contain
Local
authorities
Official
geographies
Neighbour-
hoods
Services
grouped
by function
Other eg:
• Planning
categories
• Entertainment
types
• Procurement
classifications
National
mapping
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Policy context
• Evidence led policy agenda
– more informed decision making
– identifying trends from wider samples
– better collaborative processes
– more positive relationships between “Smart Places”
• Leading from a demand viewpoint
– increasing availability of direct data feeds - APIs
– forging more data linking
– more transparent processes
– crowd-sourcing
– wider involvement and ownership
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Value of open data
“Open Data has the power to transform productivity
and outcomes in public services, as well as drive
enterprise value in the broader economy.”
Open Data Institute
Business Plan 2012-2017
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Lessons Learned – officers’ led viewpoint
Open data incentive scheme user survey
Participants:
111 – organisations
291 – data sets
93 – successful organisations
209 – successful data sets
61% responded to the survey
Has the exercise been of use
and benefit to your
organisation?
83% agreed & strongly agreed
Do you think this approach
should be extended?
83% agreed & strongly agreed
Would you participate again?
90% agreed & strongly agreed
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Lessons Learned – challenges/potential
Open data incentive scheme user survey
Reasons for withdrawal
52% – inflexible corporate IT systems
48% – capacity and staffing skills available
35% – insufficient time
Potential for national working
65% – see benefit & support national schemas
What have they learnt most?
81% – stages & processes to be followed
56% – shortfalls in internal governance
55% – role and benefit of ODI & data.gov.uk
Full survey report at:
http://e-sd.org/FYPmk
22. Recognising the benefits of open data and its use
Making data available
and using them raised
the profile of data as
an asset
Breaks down silos
between departments,
organisations, citizens
and communities
Improved skills as
people make better
use of data
Greater insight into customer
needs and demands due to
better analytics helps to
improve service delivery and
performance
Councils know what
data they own, reduces
duplication
Easier and faster data
analysis from standardised
and linkable data
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Further information
LG Inform Plus: local.gov.uk/lginformplus
Open data: opendata.esd.org.uk
Standards: standards.esd.org.uk
Technical Help: support@esd.org.uk
Open data knowledge group:
https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/group
/localopendatacommunity
tim.adams@local.gov.uk
@DrTimAdams
lginformplus@local.gov.uk
Hinweis der Redaktion
Incentive scheme to publish planning applications, public toilets and licenced premises
Common planning applications (Surrey, Hampshire and Incentive scheme)
Outcome focused
Improving procurement through better data and its use (Procurement NAG, LB Harrow, Transparency Code)
Fostering regeneration, improve infrastructure provide housing
Infrastructure data (New Economy)
Land assets (City of Derby, Transparency Code)
Inventories (Peterborough, Redbridge, Leeds,
Natural neighbourhoods/flexible geographies (Cheshire East/LG Inform Plus)
At a national level data.gov.uk provides a loosely indexed catalogue of open data sets from public organisations, including local authorities. The Open Data Institute also has a catalogue of datasets that have been self-certified as “open”.
Local open datasets tend to be similar across many councils so, in local government, we are striving to have some more structure. This means that:
Each council can draw on work of others
People can link, compare and combine datasets from many councils
Within our Open data site we catalogue by function and service all local datasets that are inventorised in a standard way by councils and ones coming from the local open data incentive scheme. We list the datasets with links to the actual data. We aggregate data from different councils that uses the same tabular format, as defined by its schema.
We encourage use of standard classifications, defined by URI sets, so everyone is using the same definitions and we can link across different datasets.
The Open data User Group has selected datasets that are commonly requested. We’ve tried to make it as simple as possible for councils to provide the dataset BUT there must be sufficient data to be useful to consumers AND it must be possible for developers to aggregate meaningfully across datasets from all councils.
So we expect them to be able to produce a single aggregated dataset for each of the three themes. They can then develop applications that make the data useful to citizens.
setting up platforms for publishing data (datashare, CKAN, Socrata, Dkan to name a few)
Setting up and getting buy-in for internal sustainable processes for publishing data
Developing and providing a common standards for data so that they can be compared and combined
Engaging with users, communities, developers and business to find out data needs and encourage the use of data
To be done to identify the value of data use
Come to the landing page for the Local Government Information Sharing and Standards toolset known as LG Inform Plus
We have a 360 degree model of local government business information within the esd standards. It has taken over a decade to develop with the involvement of practically every council in England and in Scotland. We can dice, slice and inter-connect business information from any angle or any starting point. Little did we realise when we started this in 2001 but the ontologies and the precise lists of interconnected symantics (definitions) provide a fundamental building block to linking data in an open published way. These local government standards provide the basis for one set of uris – essential to linked data – for local government business semantics.
Standard classifications, in the form of sets of URIs, are important so everyone using the data understands the terms used and these terms have precise meaning. URI sets of particular importance to local authorities are from:
DCLG’s Open data Communities
ONS, published via statistics.data.gov.uk
our esd-standards and natural neighbourhoods (developed by Cheshire East) sites
URIs are used to:
Classify schemas
define the scope of datasets
- define teh scope of induividual data items within datasets
The latest additions to the Local Government Inform Plus toolset is a whole host of search tools, inventory management and schemas/datasets harvesting under the “open data” section
Documents give an overview of the scheme, details of how to apply and full details of how to comply with each schema – including exactly what data is expected in each column of the data and if it is optional or required.
There are a lot of columns specified, but many are optional. We just name each column so, where councils do include data, the column name is the same for all councils.
Documents give an overview of the scheme, details of how to apply and full details of how to comply with each schema – including exactly what data is expected in each column of the data and if it is optional or required.
There are a lot of columns specified, but many are optional. We just name each column so, where councils do include data, the column name is the same for all councils.
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We have a 360 degree model of local government business information within the esd standards. It has taken over a decade to develop with the involvement of practically every council in England and in Scotland. We can dice, slice and inter-connect business information from any angle or any starting point. Little did we realise when we started this in 2001 but the ontologies and the precise lists of interconnected symantics (definitions) provide a fundamental building block to linking data in an open published way. These local government standards provide the basis for one set of uris – essential to linked data – for local government business semantics.
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