opendata.zh.ch - How the Canton of Zurich uses the Swiss open government data pilot portal to make its open data visible



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1. Agile Web Development Liip.ch ! – Zürich, 24. February 2014 OPENDATA.ZH.CH How the Canton of Zurich uses the Swiss open government data pilot portal to make its open data visible ! ! Andreas Amsler, Liip
2. THE SWISS OGD PILOT PORTAL
3. ESTABLISHES EASY ACCESS
4. TO OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
5. IN MACHINE READABLE FORM
6. TO BE FREELY REUSED
7. FOSTERING PARTICIPATION
8. FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
9. OPENDATA.ADMIN.CH The portal is designed to make open data of data-owners on all Swiss federal levels findable and usable.
10. - one central portal to provide OGD of the Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation, of Cantonal and Communal Authorities, as well as of further public authorities - the portal is quadrilingual - pilot phase has been extended until end of 2014
11. DATA OWNERS - Swiss federal archives - Federal Office of Topography - Federal Office of Meteorology 
 and Climatology MeteoSwiss - Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Swiss National Library - Canton of Zurich Statistical Office - Canton of Zurich Topographical Office - Federal Office of Public Health - Federal Office of for the Environment
12. OPENDATA.ZH.CH The Canton of Zurich opted for an open government data pilot project using the infrastructure of opendata.admin.ch
13. ARCHITECTURE - the two offices of the Canton of Zurich are connected with specifically developed harvesters (CKAN extensions) to the local CKAN instance of the BAR - the data of the Canton of Zurich has got a direct URL: 
 http://opendata.admin.ch/organization/kanton-zurich
 CKAN instance BAR CKAN instance swisstopo central portal search 
 datasets download 
 or APIs BAR BFS NB ZH-STAT
 geo.admin.ch MeteoSchweiz 5 harvesters harvester harvester 2 harvesters existing data
 environment ZH-GIS

14. TECHNOLOGY - solely open source software - data management framework CKAN with Amazon S3 Cloud (for those data which are physically uploaded) - PHP content management framework Symfony CMF CKAN with Amazon S3 Cloud CKAN with Amazon S3 Cloud Symfony CMF 
 & CKAN BAR BFS NB ZH-STAT
 geo.admin.ch MeteoSchweiz ZH-GIS

15. SECURITY - CKAN consists of standard components like PostgreSQL, Solr, Apache and S3 with a high security level - the CKAN application is built on the Pylons framework (Python) and is continuously tested by a worldwide community CKAN with Amazon S3 Cloud CKAN with Amazon S3 Cloud Symfony CMF 
 & CKAN BAR BFS NB ZH-STAT geo.admin.ch MeteoSchweiz ZH-GIS
16. Agile Web Development Liip.ch ! – LET’S TALK ABOUT 
 YOUR OPEN DATA. Andreas Amsler +41 43 501 40 05 andreas.amsler@liip.ch