Next Generation Open Data: Getting It Right

Kate Hickey - Applied Geographics, Inc

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1. Kate Hickey, Vice Presidet of Consulting Services khickey@appgeo.com Texas GIS Forum 2016 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right
2. What I want to share with you I. Some historical perspective on Open Data II. A few bumps in the road III. The Boston story (in 3 chapters)
3. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 3 Drivers of Open Data Version 1.0: Transparency, Democracy, Public Good, Innovation • Availability and access • Re-useability • Universal participation Interoperability
4. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 4 Open Data Version 1.0: Build it and they will come • Publish as much data as possible • People will figure it out • Good things will happen!
5. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 5 Open Data Version 1.0: Build it and they will come
6. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 6 Some things didn’t go so well… • Poor data quality; “dump and run” • Bells and whistles as measure of “value” • Attitude of “one-size-fits-all” • Little guidance for new or non- technical users • General confusion about what open data is
7. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 7 Boston Open Data Chapter 1: A City Portal is Born • 2012, launched Socrata site • 150+ data sets published • Joined the ranks of world class open data cities…whew! • But what really happened?
8. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 8 Boston’s Issues: Lack of Commitment from City Departments • 4 years after launch, only 40% of the City’s departments were participating • No institutional process in place to keep data accurate, fresh, meaningful
9. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 9 Boston’s Issues: User frustration Image courtesy of City of Boston DoIT, Open Data Summit March 2016
10. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 10 Boston’s Issues: Lack of Guidance & Context
11. Boston’s Issues: Unhelpful Metadata Image courtesy of City of Boston DoIT, Open Data Summit March 2016
12. Boston’s Issues: GIS data treated as “special” data ? “Boston Open Data” “Boston Maps Open Data” Confusion
13. 13 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right Boston’s Issues: The City was not using the portal itself! Mark Headd, “I Hate Open Data Portals”, Civic Innovations
14. 14 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right “In a way, governments are assigning second-class status to the data in Open Data Portals. Sure, it’s important and the APIs are awesome but we’re not going to use them ourselves.” - Mark Headd, “I Hate Open Data Portals”, Civic Innovations Boston’s Issues: The City was not using the portal itself!
15. 15 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right Moving from Open Data to Open Knowledge http://epicgraphic.com/data-cake/ Let’s all start with the same ingredients.
16. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 16 Boston Open Data Chapter 2: Enter the Knight Foundation The Knight brothers believed that a well-informed community could best determine its own true interests and was essential to a well-functioning, representative democracy.
17. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 17 Who’s been thinking about disseminating knowledge for hundreds of years? Image courtesy of City of Boston DoIT, Open Data Summit March 2016
18. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 18 Boston Open Data c.1900
19. Image courtesy of City of Boston DoIT, Open Data Summit March 2016
20. 20 Let’s Try This Again: Goals for Open Data Version 2.0 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right • Unified • Enduring data release processes • Improved access within and across City departments • Broad public access and engagement • Make data useful, usable and used!
21. 21 Demystifying Open Data in Boston Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right Recognition that community is diverse • Developers or “super users” • Data browsers • Those who just have a question
22. 22 What are the most important outcomes? Demystifying Open Data in Boston Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right
23. 23 Demystifying Open Data in Boston: Defining Desired Outcomes Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right
24. 24 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right From Open Data to Open Knowledge
25. 25 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right Quality Data Public Demand Internal Management Priority Furthers a Department’s Mission From Open Data to Open Knowledge Image courtesy of City of Boston DoIT, Open Data Summit March 2016
26. 26 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right Engage and guide users like a library! This is not just a fancy FTP server. From Open Data to Open Knowledge
27. 27 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right Create tools that use open data. From Open Data to Open Knowledge
28. 28 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right From Open Data to Open Knowledge No more “one-off” applications that use a siloed data source (even if it’s GIS data)
29. 29 Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right From Open Data to Open Knowledge Run operations using the same dashboard that the public sees. Image courtesy of City of Boston DoIT, Open Data Summit March 2016
30. From Open Data to Open Knowledge: Solving Hard Problems and Telling Stories Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right How can our city's walkability impact the health of children and their parents? How do we provide recovery services to the individuals most likely to overdose again? Which students are not on track to graduate high school? How do we share our roadways across cars, bicycles and pedestrians? How do we boost construction of middle income housing stock? QUALITY OF LIFE HEALTH EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION HOUSING
31. 31 • Developing a curriculum for librarians and community organizations • Capturing stories • Launching a new open source CKAN portal (managed CKAN by OpenGov) in January 2017 Boston Open Data Chapter 3: What’s next? Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right
32. Next Generation Open Data: Getting it Right 32 Moving from Open Data to Open Knowledge in your city… • Don’t treat this as just a technological challenge • Start out small, simple, fast • Engage early and often with users of all types • Build a platform to serve internal and external needs
33. EMPOWERING PEOPLE WITH SPATIAL SOLUTIONS