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Making Data Publishing and Participation in Data.Gov Easy
Next Generation Data.Gov Workshop
April 14, 2011
Presenters
• Hyon Kim, Deputy Program Director, Data.Gov PMO– [email protected]
• Alan Vander Mallie, Program Manager, DataGov PMO– [email protected]
• Kevin Merritt, Founder and CEO– [email protected]– Twitter: @kmerritt
Agenda
• Current publishing challenges• Three ways to streamline publishing• What about DMS?• Additional capabilities for publishers• Expected results• Open forum
Current Challenges
• Duplication of effort– A parallel manual process to participate in Data.Gov
• Time– Cumbersome. No automation from transactional systems
• Inability to affect the citizen experience– Only tool is a downloadable file
• Lack of visibility– Who’s using the data? How? When?
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Three Ways to publish data
• Interactive publishing• Automating publishing• Federating existing data
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Demo
• Publish a dataset with csv upload– Quick, easy, no IT required– Maintenance is made easier
• Real-time publishing via the API– Seattle 911 data: http
://data.seattle.gov/Fire/Seattle-Real-Time-Fire-911-Calls/kzjm-xkqj– Complete Automation (cost reduction, time, accuracy, realtime
data more valuable)
• Federation demo– Data.Gov is no longer disconnected from your agency Open Data
initiative
• Curating the experience– Create default filters, create a map
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Federation for Agencies
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• Effortless• Automatic• Agency
collaboration• Expands reach
What about DMS?
• Today:– Identify a downloadable dataset on your agency website– Gather the metadata for the dataset– Fill out the DMS Excel template and upload to the DMS– Submission then flows through the DMS five approval
stages: sub agency, agency, PMO, security, QA.
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Future of DMS
• No immediate changes • Evaluating ways to improve DMS soon– Maintain all the safeguards to ensure data quality– But streamline entering metadata online – Or via the new publisher API– Hopefully no more templates
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Additional Capabilities for Publishers
• Visibility– Sitewide Analytics, available to Data.Gov PMO only– Dataset Analytics. Suggest
http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Milk-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/pkfj-5jsd/stats
• Moderation– [Kevin, you probably know a good one to demo]
• Home page customization– I would just show http://datagov.socrata.com/admin/
home and speak to it
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Expected results
• Saves you time• Eliminates parallel process• Automates publishing (operational data)• Gives you flexibility and control in how to
participate• Gives you the ability to engage with your
constituents (or not)• Gives you complete visibility
March 18, 2011
Questions? Comments?
Open Forum
March 18, 2011
• Contact info for follow up questions and feedback
• Arrange for a tailored discussion for your agency
Next Steps
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Kevin Merritt CEO Socrata (206) 340-8008 x111(425) 301-8142
Charles Blanchet VP of Sales Socrata (415) 505-1662 [email protected]
Todd Stavish Data.gov Agency Liaison Socrata (646) 256-4428 [email protected]
Marion Royal Program Director Data.Gov (202) 208-4643 [email protected]
Hyon Kim Deputy Program Director Data.Gov (202) 694-8148 [email protected]
Alan Vander Mallie Project Manager Data.gov (202) 501-6901 [email protected]
Chris Metcalf Technical Program Mgr Socrata (206) 340-8008 [email protected]
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Embrace the possibilities!
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