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1. Open Data Tampere Region Enabling Open Data Communities Story of Tampere and Avoindata.net Jarkko Moilanen @kyyberi Open Data TRE (@opendatatre) / New Factory / Hermia Ltd
2. Open Data Tampere Region Open Data TRE • Open data Tampere Region has 4 goals: – Spread Open Data knowledge and push data opening in Tampere region – Develop processes and practices • Business as usual – Support and enable local developer community in data usage – Support new business creation
3. Open Data Tampere Region Monthly meetups • Monthly theme based meetups: – Kickoff (Feb) ~ 70 participants – Location/map data (March) ~ 25 – Visualization (April) ~ 20 – Economical data (May) ~ 20 – Traffic/Transport & Parking (June) ~ 40
4. Open Data Tampere Region Monthly meetups • Themes seem to work • Keeps topic of Open Data 'on the table' • Collects people from variety of interest groups • A meetup: – A few short presentations, followed by – Team based work (when suitable) • Unexpected influence...
5. Open Data Tampere Region Data spikes
6. Open Data Tampere Region Community issues • Meetups are too short to actually do something concrete • We have created ideas (better than nothing), documented in etherpads • Thoughts about challenge event, 48 hour hacking event
7. Open Data Tampere Region Other issues • No money to open data, requires system specific features • No joint catalog (orgs have data, no place for it) • Project started (in June 2013) pushing Pirkanmaa Open Data Catalog
8. Open Data Tampere Region Cross-border co-operation • Code4Europe program (future) • TKL/HSL, app level joint efforts • Open Knowledge Foundation FI • Tampere – Helsinki pair • Avoindata.net
9. Open Data Tampere Region Big National Picture
10. Open Data Tampere Region 'Open Data Overflow' • Open Data TRE -project initiative. • Compared a few open source platforms • Let's build it! – Webhotel for 12 months (louhi.fi) ~ 90€ /12 months – Installed Question2Answer (open source) ~ 0€ – Purchased better responsive layout ~ 20€ • From start to finish ~ 1 day work • Costs ~110 € / year
11. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net – For whom • Support service focused on Open Data in Finnish for: • Developers • Data managers and producers – private and public sector, • Researchers • 'end-users' • Registration not required to ask/answer • Akismet (Thanks for Thomas Rücker and Saija Eteläniemi for questioning the need for registration!)
12. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - Why • Facebook is for chatting and networking – Not good as knowledge storage • Support Finnish Open Data community – Finnish Open Data 'Stack Overflow' • Future 'deposit' of open data best practices • Unofficial national pilot (to national data portal) • Foster unified Finnish Open data vocabulary
13. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - principles • Question → answer • Moderated by community • Every question is categorized ('fixed') • Tags provide details ('user defined')
14. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net
15. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - dashboard • Butt-ugly PHP code • Uses Q2A libraries • Statistics and graphs: – User count – Question & Answer count – Categories – Tags
16. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - Dashboard http://avoindata.net/dashboard
17. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - dashboard • Used mostly now for marketing • Admins tool to get overview to service • Could be more... – API to get data as JSON – ….
18. Open Data Tampere Region A Few Samples
19. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - User organizations + discussions with a few more on-going
20. Open Data Tampere Region Avoindata.net - Ext usage • RSS feeds for – city related questions (for example Helsinki) – Category based feeds for organisations • Apps4Finland will use – as platform to enable mentor – developer co-operation
21. Open Data Tampere Region All this with the support from Finnish Open Data Community
22. Open Data Tampere Region Future?