2. OPENRALEIGH
Open Raleigh: Open data transparency program
City of Raleigh Departments: What is the impact?
Open Raleigh: Brand is important for City of Raleigh
Open Data: Examples of open data on the web
Open Raleigh: Open data portal timeline
3. OPENRALEIGH
Open Raleigh is more than open data
Open data portal
Raleigh Connected
Fiber project (NC NGN)
Why are we doing this?
The City Council Resolution
The Mayor and the City Council seek to develop more
transparency for City operations and spending
Citizen activist groups and entrepreneurs asking for open data
Open data trending in top ten of municipal initiatives for 2013
(Digital Cities, O’Reilly Media)
Open Raleigh Strategy
4. OPENRALEIGH
Open data guided by global data standards and a
governance framework
Open Raleigh governance model
Open Raleigh standards and principles based on Council
Resolution
City of Raleigh data strategy and the dispersal of data
defined as open data to all channels through Open
Raleigh
Open Raleigh brand is garnering national and
international attention
Open Raleigh Strategy
5. OPENRALEIGH
Visually interesting data sets enhance City of Raleigh brand
Open Raleigh led to uptick in information requests on open data
initiatives from Cary, Durham and Winston-Salem
Need a strong brand to be seen as a regional innovator
Weak open data initiatives are criticized by citizen groups and
often are supplanted by citizen driven open data initiatives
(Open Ireland and the City of Asheville)
Raleigh seen as first major open data innovator in North Carolina
Open Raleigh must be seen as truly transparent and
comprehensive to have a strong brand
Other regional cities are going to become our competitors
(Richmond, Charlotte, Atlanta)
Open Raleigh Brand
6. OPENRALEIGH
What is required from your department?
Each department will have a data contact person
Only data that matches the City of Raleigh open data
definitions will be allowed
NO data exposing a person’s identity
NO data that compromises public safety or City operations
High value open data sets in machine readable format
Cooperation in building and maintaining a comprehensive data
catalog
City Departments: What is the impact?
7. OPENRALEIGH
What is the benefit?
Departments will receive assistance from the Open Raleigh
team
Departments will reduce burden from Freedom of Information
Act requests
Departments will be in compliance with the Council resolution
on open data
City Departments: What is the impact?
8. OPENRALEIGH
Open Data Platform
Socrata powers the Open Raleigh open data portal
Socrata is our vendor and the product suite can be found
online
Socrata powers data.gov, The World Bank, the City of Chicago
and many more
Socrata uses data visualization tools to narrate data sets
Budget data examples
Somerville Check Book Explorer (City of Somerville, MA)
World Bank: Project and Operations (Ghana)
Crime data examples (City of Chicago)
American open data city examples
City of Seattle proposed general fund by department
City of Baltimore fixed speed cameras
City of Austin data portal
9. OPENRALEIGH
Project Milestone Estimated Completion
Define resource requirements 12/30/2012
Establish governance model, stakeholders, steering committee
and oversight committee
12/30/2012
Inventory of internal datasets 1/25/2013
Establish dataset catalog 1/25/2013
Develop draft policies that adhere to the global Open Knowledge
Foundation standard for standing up of public sector open data.
1/25/2013
Develop whitepaper on the potential economic impact of Open
data on the Raleigh community
2/17/2013
Test our platform and developing internal processes for assuring
our datasets meet all of the criteria of the Open Knowledge
Foundation
2/19/2013
Deploy Socrata Software as a Service solution 3/15/2013
Open Data Portal Timeline
Hinweis der Redaktion
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The Information Technology staff held 12 stakeholder interviews with 87 City staff. The notes from these sessions were documented and validated with the stakeholders.IT has conducted market and best practice research. First with organizations that have implemented technologies then… [next slide]
The Information Technology staff held 12 stakeholder interviews with 87 City staff. The notes from these sessions were documented and validated with the stakeholders.IT has conducted market and best practice research. First with organizations that have implemented technologies then… [next slide]
The Information Technology staff held 12 stakeholder interviews with 87 City staff. The notes from these sessions were documented and validated with the stakeholders.IT has conducted market and best practice research. First with organizations that have implemented technologies then… [next slide]