local open data. presentation for cambridgeshire insight
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Hampshire Hub Partnership
Local Open Data
Mark Braggins
@protohub
Contents
1) Open data - What is it and why does it matter?
2) Give me the data (about this place, this / these topics)
3) Local Open Data
4) A bit about the Hampshire Hub
5) “Engineering Serendipity”
6) Questions and discussion
Open dataWhat is it and why does it matter?
Facts and evidence to enable public, voluntary and private sector organisations to:
• Provide better local services for people – through planning and targeting for specific
local priorities and needs.
• Support strong communities where people feel they belong – through services that
are more open, transparent and accountable to local residents and communities.
• Secure cost-savings and efficiencies for public sector organisations and
partnerships.
• Support businesses to grow and create jobs – through developing local economies,
and secure economic growth.
• A means to unlock facts and evidence held in different organisational and system
silos, and thus realise the benefits above.
• Ensuring that data can be used in new, innovative ways by new audiences including
local residents, communities and businesses.
Data
Open Data
The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can
be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.
Open Data
Communities
Geo Selector
Give me data about this place / these topics
http://equipment.data.ac.uk
Publish a spreadsheet
on your .ac.uk website
containing a single
column, with
"Description" as the
heading and each row
containing the
description of an item of
equipment.
The world doesn’t end at the county line
• Many of us have different roles
at different times of our lives
e.g.
• School governors
• Elected councillors
• Employees / managers
• Volunteers
• Business leaders / employers
• Open data can be valuable for
decision-makers in all of these
examples
A broad, strong Partnership
There are currently 21 22* Hampshire Hub partners. These include:
● 11 District Councils
● 2 National Parks
● County Council
● Fire Service
● British Army
● 3 unitaries
● Police
● DCLG
● Ordnance Survey*
Hampshire Hub extends beyond
‘just’ Hampshire, and includes the
Isle of Wight, South Downs National
Park, several neighbouring
counties, and will include
benchmarking data for all of
England.
Currently just public sector, but watch this space...
Area Profiles - Introduction
● Profiles automatically
generated from
underlying data
● Currently Includes:
○ 298 parishes
○ 330 wards
○ 11 districts
○ 3 unitaries
○ 1 county
● Further refinements to
follow, including
‘configurable’ profiles
● More ‘local’ data
● Local commentary and
analysis to be added to
profiles
Some Hampshire Hub initiatives
● Planning Register for Hampshire & Isle of Wight (also
Surrey)• The project led to creation of a national standard for planning data
used by ODUG for the Local Authority incentive scheme
• Working with My Society who are developing the ‘Open Planning’
tool
Hampshire Hub Initiatives
● Aerial photography for the whole of the county
released as open data (also height and near
infrared)
● Weather You Do or Whether you Don’t
● Crowd-Sourcing Landscape Change
● IC Tomorrow - Using data to support
independent living
● UK Space Agency Earth Observation data -
flood warning information system
● Open Cities Data Platform
● (Open) Data Co Ops investigation
Not all instigated by us
"If you open things up, good things happen"
● BlueLightCamp in May 2014 helping
tackle issues around emergency services
and resilience
● Know Now / Hartree Centre: “Weather
You Do or Whether You Don’t” - extract
value from historic data - use to inform
future decisions
● February 2015: Open Data Camp
● May 2015 Hampshire Hub Open Data
Jam
Hacking can be...good!
"If you open things up, good things happen"
http://earth.nullschool.net
Thank You
Questions and
discussion
http://www.hampshirehub.net
@markbraggins @protohub