Sheffield why open data matters to local government officers - tim adams lga
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Presentation given by Tim Adams Local Government Association LGA LG Inform Plus programme manager on the importance of open data to public sector officers and to local government policy. Given at Sheffield City Open Data Event - 10-July-2015
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Sheffield why open data matters to local government officers - tim adams lga
- 1. Why Open Data Matters to Local Government Officers Enabling capabilities through a Local Information Infrastructure Tim Adams Programme Manager (LGA) @DrTimAdams July 2015 www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus
- 2. Learning through sharing • share knowledge, explore and learn about – how to release, share and use open data through projects funded by local open data programmes – the opportunities for open data use – the benefit and value of open data and its use
- 3. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus The Landscape • Local Government in England – 353 local authorities; 44 fire & rescue – Delivers over 1500 different services – Has over 42,000 items of data collected about it • Data challenges – Not conventional data publishers – Business management data – Internal culture change • Data Extent – Good impression of people and places – Transactional, personal, performance, aggregated data across 13 functional areas
- 4. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Local open data good practice • Encouraged to use: – common tools and standards to make data comparable – inventory schema to use a common index for searching data – publication on data.gov.uk so that data can be found – open data certificate: to give data some quality, reliability and value
- 5. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Overview of the infrastructure Functions Services Datasets Incentive scheme Inventory Schemas Aggregator Councils Areas Other... data.gov.uk O D I certificates NationalLocal Neighbour hoods Classifications Data
- 6. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Objectives of the infrastructure • Provide useful data – responding to common requests • Keep it as simple as possible for councils • Resolve fragmentation, inconsistency and discovery • Enable data users to accurately interpret data and aggregate it across councils Hampshire Durham Sevenoaks Leeds Craven Sheffield Any council
- 7. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Councils gained experience in • setting up platforms for publishing data • developing digital skills to provide the digital infrastructure • implementing and getting buy-in for internal sustainable processes for publishing data • Using common standards for comparison & combination • engaging with users, communities, developers and business to find out data needs and encourage the use of data • fostering collaboration and co-design internally and externally. • • assessing the benefit and value of data use
- 8. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus LG Inform Plus: providing information management services www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus
- 9. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus esd standards – the home of local government semantics standards.esd.org.uk
- 10. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus URI sets for classification and links Datasets Schemas Data items Define structureof Contain Local authorities Official geographies Neighbour- hoods Services grouped by function Other eg: • Planning categories • Entertainment types • Procurement classifications National mapping
- 11. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Open data publishing: online guidance www.esd.org.uk
- 12. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Guidance on the scheme and schemas Overview Submission guidance Planning schema Licences schema Toilets schema
- 14. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Results, benefits, re-use LG Inventories LG Schemas Harvesters & Aggregators countrywide spreadsheets Apps – Great British Toilet Map
- 15. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Policy context • Evidence led policy agenda – more informed decision making – identifying trends from wider samples – better collaborative processes – more positive relationships between “Smart Places” • Leading from a demand viewpoint – increasing availability of direct data feeds - APIs – forging more data linking – more transparent processes – crowd-sourcing – wider involvement and ownership
- 16. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Evidence-led viewpoint • open and accessible data promotes – Accountability – Choice – Public sector productivity – Public sector quality (based on performance measures) – Economic growth – Social growth
- 18. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Demand-led viewpoint The value of data depends on the outcomes from its use
- 19. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Value of open data “Open Data has the power to transform productivity and outcomes in public services, as well as drive enterprise value in the broader economy.” Open Data Institute Business Plan 2012-2017
- 20. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Lessons Learned – officers’ led viewpoint Open data incentive scheme user survey Participants: 111 – organisations 291 – data sets 93 – successful organisations 209 – successful data sets 61% responded to the survey Has the exercise been of use and benefit to your organisation? 83% agreed & strongly agreed Do you think this approach should be extended? 83% agreed & strongly agreed Would you participate again? 90% agreed & strongly agreed
- 21. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Lessons Learned – challenges/potential Open data incentive scheme user survey Reasons for withdrawal 52% – inflexible corporate IT systems 48% – capacity and staffing skills available 35% – insufficient time Potential for national working 65% – see benefit & support national schemas What have they learnt most? 81% – stages & processes to be followed 56% – shortfalls in internal governance 55% – role and benefit of ODI & data.gov.uk Full survey report at: http://e-sd.org/FYPmk
- 22. Recognising the benefits of open data and its use Making data available and using them raised the profile of data as an asset Breaks down silos between departments, organisations, citizens and communities Improved skills as people make better use of data Greater insight into customer needs and demands due to better analytics helps to improve service delivery and performance Councils know what data they own, reduces duplication Easier and faster data analysis from standardised and linkable data
- 24. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Further information LG Inform Plus: local.gov.uk/lginformplus Open data: opendata.esd.org.uk Standards: standards.esd.org.uk Technical Help: support@esd.org.uk Open data knowledge group: https://knowledgehub.local.gov.uk/group /localopendatacommunity tim.adams@local.gov.uk @DrTimAdams lginformplus@local.gov.uk
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- Incentive scheme to publish planning applications, public toilets and licenced premises Common planning applications (Surrey, Hampshire and Incentive scheme) Outcome focused Improving procurement through better data and its use (Procurement NAG, LB Harrow, Transparency Code) Fostering regeneration, improve infrastructure provide housing Infrastructure data (New Economy) Land assets (City of Derby, Transparency Code) Inventories (Peterborough, Redbridge, Leeds, Natural neighbourhoods/flexible geographies (Cheshire East/LG Inform Plus)
- At a national level data.gov.uk provides a loosely indexed catalogue of open data sets from public organisations, including local authorities. The Open Data Institute also has a catalogue of datasets that have been self-certified as “open”. Local open datasets tend to be similar across many councils so, in local government, we are striving to have some more structure. This means that: Each council can draw on work of others People can link, compare and combine datasets from many councils Within our Open data site we catalogue by function and service all local datasets that are inventorised in a standard way by councils and ones coming from the local open data incentive scheme. We list the datasets with links to the actual data. We aggregate data from different councils that uses the same tabular format, as defined by its schema. We encourage use of standard classifications, defined by URI sets, so everyone is using the same definitions and we can link across different datasets.
- The Open data User Group has selected datasets that are commonly requested. We’ve tried to make it as simple as possible for councils to provide the dataset BUT there must be sufficient data to be useful to consumers AND it must be possible for developers to aggregate meaningfully across datasets from all councils. So we expect them to be able to produce a single aggregated dataset for each of the three themes. They can then develop applications that make the data useful to citizens.
- setting up platforms for publishing data (datashare, CKAN, Socrata, Dkan to name a few) Setting up and getting buy-in for internal sustainable processes for publishing data Developing and providing a common standards for data so that they can be compared and combined Engaging with users, communities, developers and business to find out data needs and encourage the use of data To be done to identify the value of data use
- Come to the landing page for the Local Government Information Sharing and Standards toolset known as LG Inform Plus
- We have a 360 degree model of local government business information within the esd standards. It has taken over a decade to develop with the involvement of practically every council in England and in Scotland. We can dice, slice and inter-connect business information from any angle or any starting point. Little did we realise when we started this in 2001 but the ontologies and the precise lists of interconnected symantics (definitions) provide a fundamental building block to linking data in an open published way. These local government standards provide the basis for one set of uris – essential to linked data – for local government business semantics.
- Standard classifications, in the form of sets of URIs, are important so everyone using the data understands the terms used and these terms have precise meaning. URI sets of particular importance to local authorities are from: DCLG’s Open data Communities ONS, published via statistics.data.gov.uk our esd-standards and natural neighbourhoods (developed by Cheshire East) sites URIs are used to: Classify schemas define the scope of datasets - define teh scope of induividual data items within datasets
- The latest additions to the Local Government Inform Plus toolset is a whole host of search tools, inventory management and schemas/datasets harvesting under the “open data” section
- Documents give an overview of the scheme, details of how to apply and full details of how to comply with each schema – including exactly what data is expected in each column of the data and if it is optional or required. There are a lot of columns specified, but many are optional. We just name each column so, where councils do include data, the column name is the same for all councils.
- Documents give an overview of the scheme, details of how to apply and full details of how to comply with each schema – including exactly what data is expected in each column of the data and if it is optional or required. There are a lot of columns specified, but many are optional. We just name each column so, where councils do include data, the column name is the same for all councils.
- 40 per cent by the end of this Parliament and having made £20 billion worth of savings since 2010, there is limited scope to keep protecting services through making further efficiency savings. If spending reductions follow a similar pattern in the next Parliament, councils will be facing a £12.4 billion funding gap by the end of the decade. 400,000 Houses needed: identify sites, attract developers, planning Help young unemployed (half 205 to 10%), more apprenticeships. London skills council School places: Admissions, half applications (newham) Leeds neighbourhood networks support people to live independently 12 bn blacklog in road repairs. Identify and record road repairs, organise voluntary work Public health: Childhood obesity, prevention, activity
- We have a 360 degree model of local government business information within the esd standards. It has taken over a decade to develop with the involvement of practically every council in England and in Scotland. We can dice, slice and inter-connect business information from any angle or any starting point. Little did we realise when we started this in 2001 but the ontologies and the precise lists of interconnected symantics (definitions) provide a fundamental building block to linking data in an open published way. These local government standards provide the basis for one set of uris – essential to linked data – for local government business semantics.
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