Opening data sets in your city

Hi everyone,

During our check-in call last week @Are let me know they are currently developing the open data portal in Bergen. They are currently working on water, sewage building & health data. Are would like to get mobility data prioritsed as next in line.

@michelle @Amsterdatamas @klantto @pjppauwels and tips / shareable documents & resources you may have to help with getting mobility prioritised and developing a workflow to open the data?

If more cities would find this discussion useful we could perhaps organise a telco learning session & compile best practice.

@boris the AMS open data portal is open source right? Bergen could replicate (parts of) it?

The Amsterdam city data portal is indeed open, however it is not very reusable as it currently stands, it is mostly an application to visualise and query the Open Data APIs and link to our (fairly standard) CKAN catalogue.

However we’re very willing to start collaborating on shared components wherever possible. We’ve also just started working with a few other dutch governments to try and build a suite of Open Source geo-components for visualising things on the map. In addition to this Amsterdam is building a new application to replace CKAN, I would love to broker a call with our team that is doing this if there is any will.

Our Open Data site is at https://data.amsterdam.nl

Technical input can be found with @HansF regarding dataportals and streams. Bart Rosseau and @JoranVD are the go to guys content wise.

The City of Ghent does not use CKAN, but the http://thedatatank.com/.
The front is a Drupal theme / CMS system https://data.stad.gent/

Regarding the shared components @Boris mentioned, check with @HansF what is possible within http://servicefactory.digipolis.gent/, this is a Digipolis project on building (open) components for city services.

Hi Boris, all,

Sounds great. That’s what OASC has as an ambition to make a reality, and with SynchroniCity it’s super practical.

Maybe we could have a joint webinar? Both with really practical elements and a more tactical/strategic addition?

Just my two cents from WP6.

Cheers,

M

In Gothenburg we have a simple open data platform at: www.goteborg.se/psidata
Here are our checklists and other helpful documents. https://goteborgsstad.github.io/OpenCity/

We are working inthe IRIS project to build a City Innovation Platform buildt upon Fiware and TMForum api´s. More on this as we get further. http://irissmartcities.eu/

What i am interested in is How to visualize data, open source platforms for this and how tos.
In sweden we have a city that built a great platform: https://mitt.sundsvall.se/
all this is open source. Id like to get this in motion for our cities.,

Cheers, FInally the warm weather is here.

/ kim

Great idea Martin.

Thanks guys. Are there specific requirements we must fulfill in order to abide by SCORE/Interreg rules in terms of architecture of the sharing platform, API, code of the datasets or similar? I am an environmental engineer, so keep any replies simple please

Hey Are,

This far we have the following on paper for the (perhaps too technical) considerations, Software we make should adhere to this, and Software people should understand: https://github.com/score-partners/quality-code

Main takeaways I think:

• Open from the start

• Ideally, a Microservice architecture that can be deployed on platforms like Openshift

What kind of documentation could we make for you in order to understand what you need to do?

Hi all,

in Aarhus we publish on the national Open Data platform:

Platform: http://www.opendata.dk/
Aarhus data: https://portal.opendata.dk/dataset?q=aarhus
Guides and analyses: http://www.opendata.dk/viden-om/vejledninger-og-analyser
Use cases: http://www.opendata.dk/viden-om/use-cases

All in Danish, I’m afraid…

/Mikkel

So if I may:

Summary of responses

Amsterdam is building a) a suite of Open Source geo-components for visualising things on the map and b) a replacement for CKAN

Gent uses http://thedatatank.com/ instead of CKAN & might be able to contribute to open geo-components

OASC/UoA proposes webinar to build on Synchronicity work re practical & tactical points

Gothenburg is building a city innovation platform (including geo-components) & wants to work on data visualisation

Bergen is starting to set up its open data portal

Aarhus City uses the national data portal

Opportunities to move forward

Should we set up a working group around open data portals, focusing a) data storage/management, b) geo-components, c) data visualisation, and d) compiling best practice & links for other cities looking to set up their portals? Or is there not sufficient overlap in components to have fruitful collaboration?

@Boris & @h.niesing is the data tank AMS might want to use/learn from?
@hans would the geo-components AMS is building/ be interesting for Gent?
Would AMS & Gent be interested in the data visualisation components @klantto mentioned?
@brynskov do you have anything sharable specific to open data portals?

If yes, then we can set up a working group & organise a telco as @brynskov suggested

@Are - Interreg rules = no, SCORE ambition = what Boris shared. Are the resources and checklists shared above useful? What other information do you need & who would be your colleague working on the data portal? Feel free to invite them to the conversation here!

also could this incorporate @pjppauwels’ proposal for a new working group? or is that too far a stretch?

Sure, there’s lots to share, both experiences, frameworks and implementations, and ongoing convergence efforts.

Let’s discuss on Friday and scope a session, perhaps with a follow-up after the May 24 webinar.

Cheers,

M

It’s in regards to this discussion a smaller tool that is Open Data Platform independent, but can contribute to a number of difficulties within existing data platform. So yes. But it won’t solve all interoperability.