An Open Data Story

An Open Data Story
1st Seminar
The Programmable City Project
Open data & evidence informed
decision making
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault
Programmable City Project
NIRSA, NUIM

Content
 Discovering the power of data
 Access to Data (Canada)
 Open Data (+/-Canada)
 Data and The Programmable City Project
 Open data in Ireland...

University Setting
Image source: http://www.geomatikk.ntnu.no/english/
University Geomatics
MADGIC

Federal Government Setting
Provincial and Territorial
Geomatics Accord (2001)

Civil Society Setting
Geographic
and
Numeric
Information
Systems
Social
Planning
Network of
Ontario

Research Setting
R
Research Data Consultations

Canada’s Access Story
 Universities / Research libraries, data & GIS
librarians
 Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
 Granting Councils – SSHRC/NSERC/CIHR
 Scientists – natural & social
 Geomatics
 NGOs & Civil Society (social, environmental)
 Governments, Federal, Provinces, Territories &
Cities

Data Cyber/infrastructures
Institutional
Framework
•administration
•policy
•law
•skills
Technical
Standards
•data integration
•Interoperability
•Preservation
•transfer
Framework Data
•geodetic
•base maps
Access Network
•catalogs
•metadata
•web services
•atlas
Geospatial
Data
Infrastructure
(GDI)

In the background...
 Platforms:
 GoogleMaps - mashups
 Flickr – geotagging
 MyDelicious – Folksonomies
 Blogging & Vlogging
 YouTube
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Open Access
 SPARC
 CIHR
 Data Management
 International Polar Year
 Open Source
 Un-conferences
 Bar camps
 GOSLING gaggles
 Community WiFi
 Law
 Lawrence Lessig
 Future of Ideas
 Code is Law
 Creative Commons
 Canadian Internet Public
Policy Interest Clinic
 Michael Geist
 Teresa Scassa
 David Fewer

UK Guardian Free Our Data Campaign

Open Data Definitions (sample)
 1992 - UNCED – Agenda 21 Chapter 40,
Information for Decision Making
 2005 - Open Knowledge Foundation
(OKNF) - 11 Principles (Licence specific)
 2007 - US Open Government Working
Group - 8 principles of Open Government
Data
 GEOSS - Data Sharing Principles for the
Global Earth Observing System of Systems
 Science Commons Protocol for
Implementing Open Access Data
 Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
 Open Economics Principles
 Ontario Information Privacy Commissioner
- 7 Principles
 Sunlight Foundation - 10 Principles for
Opening Up Government Information
 US Association of Computing Machinery
(USACM) – Recommendations on Open
Government
 American Library Association (ALA) –
Access to Government Information
Principles
 Open Congress - Open Data and Open
Database Creation Principles
 W3C - Publishing Open Government Data
 Tim Berners-Lee 5 Star of Open Data
 OECD, Recommendations on Public Sector
Information
 OECD, Principles and Guidelines for Access
to Research Data from Public Funding

Most Popular Open Data Defs.
1. Access
2. Redistribution
3. Reuse
4. Absence of Technological
Restriction
5. Attribution
6. Integrity
7. No Discrimination Against Persons
or Groups
8. No Discrimination Against Fields
of Endeavor
9. Distribution of License
10. License Must Not Be Specific to a
Package
11. License Must Not Restrict the
Distribution of Other Works
★ make your stuff available on the Web
(whatever format) under an open license
★★ make it available as structured data (e.g.,
Excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV
instead of Excel)
★★★★ use URIs to denote things, so that people
can point at your stuff
★★★★★ link your data to other data to provide
context
Tim Berners-Lee, 5 star deployment
scheme for Open Data

Cities take the lead in Canada

G4 + 1
Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver + Montreal

Open Data Cities
1. Banff Open Data Portal, (AB) Pilot
2. City of Brandon (MB)
3. City of Burlington (ON), Pilot
4. City of Calgary (AB)
5. City of Edmonton (AB)
6. City of Fredericton (NB)
7. Portail dedonnées ouvertes de la ville de
Gatineau, Gatineau Ouverte – Citizen Led
8. County of Grande Prairie (AB)
9. Halifax Regional Municipality (NS)
10. City of Hamilton Open and Accessible Data (ON),
City of Hamilton (Transit Feed) (ON), Open Data
Hamilton – Citizen Led ***NEW
11. OpenHalton (ON) – Citizen Led
12. City of Kelowna Open Data Catalog (BC) ***NEW
13. City of London (ON), OpenData London – Citizen
Led
14. Township of Langley (BC)
15. Open Data Medicine Hat (AB)
16. City of Mississauga – Mississauga Data (ON)
17. Ville de Montréal Portails données ouvertes (QC),
Montréal Ouvert – Citizen Led
18. City of Nanaimo (BC)
19. City of Niagara Falls (ON)
20. Region of Niagara (ON)
21. Regional District of North Okanagan (BC)
22. District of North Vancouver (BC) GeoWeb
23. City of Ottawa (ON), Citizens’ APP Group –
OpenData Ottawa; Apps
24. Region of Peel (ON)
25. City of Prince George (BC)
26. Ville de Québec Catalogue de données, Capitale
Ouverte (QC)- Citizen Led in Ville de Québec
27. City of Red Deer, Alberta
28. City of Regina (SK) Open Gov & Open Data site
29. Open Data Saskatoon, interim portal
30. City of Surrey (BC) GIS Catalog
31. City of Toronto (ON); DataTO – Citizen Group
32. City of Vancouver (BC); Open Data Wiki
33. City of Victoria (BC)
34. Open Data (city) Waterloo (ON).
35. Region of Waterloo (ON), Region of Waterloo –
Citizen Led,
36. City of Windsor (ON) Open Data Catalog

Open Data Provinces
1. Data BC
2. Alberta Open Data government portal
3. Open Data Saskatchewan, Citizen Led
4. Ontario Open Data
5. Données ouvertes Portail du Gouvernement du Québec,
Québec Ouvert – Citizen Led

Federal Open Data
 Geogratis & Geobase & Discovery Portal & Atlas of Canada
 Office of the Information Commissioners Open Government
Resolutions
 OpenData.gc.ca
 Research Data Canada
 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Open Data

Citizen Engagement
http://opennorth.ca/ Budget Plateau
http://budgetplateau.com/

Citizen Recreation
http://patinermontreal.ca/rinks/74-saint-simon-apotre
http://montrealouvert.net/a-propos/

Accountability
http://mamairie.ca/
http://represent.opennorth.ca/

Public Health
http://resto-net.ca/en

Chief Medical Officer of Health
http://emis.santemontreal.qc.ca/

Accessibility
Catherine Roy: ecrire@catherine-roy.net http://montrealaccessible.ca/

Transparency
 Les appels d’offres et certain contrats
octroyés de la Ville de Montréal et la
province du Québec (version détaillée
ici)
 Le registre des entreprises du Canada
 Les dons au partis politiques du
Canada
 Les dons aux partis politiques du
Québec
 Le registre des lobbyistes du
gouvernment fédéral(aussi registre et
journal)
 Licenses restreintes dans l'industrie
de la construction
 Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de
Laval depuis 2007
 Les contrats octroyés par la Ville de
Montréal depuis 2006

Hackathons
http://www.rhok.org/
http://montrealouvert.net/2011/
11/23/compte-rendu-du-3e-
hackathon-montreal-
ouvert/?lang=en
http://www.livinglabmontreal.org
/TranspoCampMTL

Entrepreneurs
 All 10,000 public and
private foundations.
 Exhaustive list of
federal and provincial
funding programs
specifically for non-
profits (over 700).
 Corporate funders
(500 and growing).

Transportation Planning
Au niveau municipal, les
données sont accessibles
indirectement sur le site de la
ville de Montréal. En d'autres
termes, ces données n'ont pas
été prévues pour être utilisées
de manière directe mais sont
affichées sur une carte dans la
section Info-Travaux.
Au niveau provinciale, les
données viennent du
Ministère des transports du
Québec et de son
service Québec 511. Là aussi le
MTQ se démarque de ses
homologues canadiens en étant
a priori le premier à proposer
des données GPS pour la
localisation des chantiers.

Advocacy
http://www.opendatabc.ca
/index.html
http://opennorth.ca/

Data Negotiation
http://cdc-dcc.info/mandate.php

Citizen Science
http://waterenvironmentalhub.ca/

Environment
http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/
http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-
centre/press-releases/court-victory-forces-
canada-to-report-pollution-data-for-mines

Funding
http://www.ipy-api.gc.ca/pg_IPYAPI_052-fra.html

Open by Design
http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr-ori-ari_2010_1.aspx

Analytical Framework
Translation: City into code Transduction: Code reshapes city
Understanding the city
(Knowledge)
P 1: How are digital data
generated and processed
about cities and their citizens?
P 5: How does software drive
public policy development and
implementation?
Managing the city
(Governance)
P 2: How are discourses and
practices of city governance
translated into code?
P 6: How is software used to
regulate and govern city life?
Working in the city
(Production)
P 3: How is the geography and
political economy of software
production organised?
P 7: How does software alter the
forma and nature of work?
Living in the city
(Social Politics)
P 4: How is software
discursively produced and
legitimated by vested
interests?
P 8: How does software transform
the spatiality and spatial
behaviour of individuals?
Analytical framework of the SOFTCITY project
Source: NIRSA Programmable City Project Post Doctoral Application Document

Kitchin’s Assemblages
• Systems of thought
• Governmentalities
• Political economy
• Forms of knowledge
• Practices
• Subjectivities
• Materialities/Infrastructures
• Organisations and institutions
• Places
• Marketplaces

Information Requirements
 Instantiations – smartcities (IBM), sustainable
connected cities (INTEL), government,
community based, data analytics, big data,
open data
 Infrastructures – portals, metadata catalogs,
standards, formats, requirements,
architecture, APIS, data (materialities)
 Policies/Laws – licenses, regulation,
guidelines, agreements, contracts, privacy,
access, IPR (political economy)
 People – hactivists / public servants
/researchers / company employeers /
communities / data users / data producers /
data brokers / app developers /
entrepreneurs / curators /consultants /
politician / coder, prosumer, citizen
scientists (subjectivities)
 Activities – hackathons, conferences, g 2 b,
data users, sales, apps development,
evidence informed decision making,
planning, advocacy, collective data
gathering/OSM, sensing, surveillance
(Practices)
 Places – organization (ngos, gov. Office,
etc.), public space (cafe), hubs (t-cube),
storage, lists, blogs, websites, groups, virtual
- hangouts/skype, bulletin
boards/software/calendars
 Incentive structures – profit, democratic
deliberation, MIS, notoriety-market, citizen
science/VGI/crowd, data analytics, social
need/desire/affect, obligation, creativity,
propaganda, amusement, team, social
expectations? (Subjectivities / marketplace)
 Data – types, forms, controls, use, access,
communities, users, classifications,
standards, institutions,
preservation/lifecycle, quality, medium

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