Listing | Challenge.gov Data.gov Open Data in European cities - Portail européen de données More and more European Union Member States are recognising the potential value of Open Data and are acting upon it. Open Data portals are in place, increasingly backed by solid Open Data policies. But it is not only the national level that matters. For a successful national Open Data initiative, the whole publication chain should be taken into account. A new European Data Portal analytical report investigates Open Data initiatives in eight medium-sized European cities, after having analysed Open Data initiatives in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna in a previous report, published in June 2016. The cities differ with regards to data available on their portal and portal features. Overall, this report shows that not only Europe’s most prominent cities like Barcelona and Paris - as featured in the first report - are maturing on their Open Data journey, but that also more medium-sized cities are taking bold steps on their Open Data journey.
Open Data Portal Beta Encourages Visitors to 'Analyze Boston' Boston has launched a beta version of a new citywide open data platform. This project, dubbed Analyze Boston, is a work in progress, and city officials said in a statement that they hope the now-online preview will “spark conversation and get feedback” leading up to its official release this spring. The project's goal is to upgrade and enhance Boston’s current open data portal, on which Mayor Marty Walsh has long encouraged agencies to publish their data sets. On the new site, visitors can now search through all of Boston’s open data sets, interacting with that data through preview, filter and visualization tools. Developers emphasized five key differences between the beta and the existing portal it seeks to improve upon: Consolidation: Boston’s open data sets are currently available on two sites, one for maps and one for everything else. The beta and the current data portal will exist simultaneously as the city moves toward the official launch.
A better open data portal - City of San Diego Open Data Portal We are excited - and somewhat exhausted - to present to San Diegans a new and improved Open Data portal today. The portal has a fresh look, but more importantly, we rebuilt the technology behind the portal and upgraded our workflow for keeping data up-to-date. Just yesterday We initially launched our data portal by buying a ready-made portal product from a company. But we’ve always had a long-term vision for open data that relied on high-tech strategies. Ready-made portal products are more geared toward a manual update process, so when we started working to automate data updates late last year, our automation solution didn’t work as well with our portal product as we had hoped. Normally, a client uploads a dataset to its cloud, and then that dataset is available for download, for preview in the browser, and through its data API. But we were not hosting our data in the cloud service our portal provider offered. Although a ready-made portal product is convenient, it is also expensive. Today
40 Brilliant Open Data Projects (And How They're Redefining Smart Cities) — CARTO Blog In honor of New York City’s Open Data Week 2017 we’ve compiled a resource featuring 40 smart, data-driven projects reminding us of open data’s value. The rate of urban migration around the world is rising at an alarming rate. Experts estimate that 70 percent of the world’s population (more than six billion people!) will reside in urban areas by 2050. In response, government officials are investing in data sharing technologies to discover ways to provide public services more efficiently. This form of city planning has invariably been described as “smart”, “intelligent”, “responsive”, “resilient”, and, more recent, “senseable”. We’ve assembled the list below both to recognize these accomplishments and promote more work with open data! Building an open data portal is expensive, and returns on this investment can be difficult to measure. Dat If you’re looking to get started with open data, then Dat is the place to start! Transparency and Accountability Performance Management Civic Engagement
Open Knowledge: Home The Cost(s) of Geospatial Open Data - Johnson - 2017 - Transactions in GIS Abstract The provision of open data by governments at all levels has rapidly increased over recent years. Given that one of the dominant motivations for the provision of open data is to generate ‘value’, both economic and civic, there are valid concerns over the costs incurred in this pursuit. Typically, costs of open data are framed as internal to the data providing government. Building on the strong history of GIScience research on data provision via spatial data infrastructures, this article considers both the direct and indirect costs of open data provision, framing four main areas of indirect costs: citizen participation challenges, uneven provision across geography and user types, subsidy of private sector activities, and the creation of inroads for corporate influence on government. These areas of indirect cost lead to the development of critical questions, including constituency, purpose, enablement, protection, and priorities. 3.2 Uneven Geographies of Open Data Provision
Contests as innovation policy instruments: Lessons from the US federal agencies' experience - ScienceDirect Isabelle Liotard is associate professor at the University Paris 13 (CEPN Sorbonne Paris Cité), having the Habilitation. She is interested in network economy, intellectual property rights (IPR) and Internet platforms. She analyses more specifically firms' strategies regarding patents. Valérie Revest is an associate professor in Finance and Economics, having the Habilitation, at the University of Lyon 2, research center: TRIANGLE.
Philanthropy and innovation - how could open data and artificial intelligence help funders do better? Philanthropic foundations are not always the best places for innovation. They can be risk averse, bureaucratic, hierarchical, and cliquey. Some of the biggest ones are the most secretive. But a significant minority of funders are working to open things up, to adopt new methods and act in the more accountable ways they would want their grant recipients to. A debate is beginning to gather steam about everything from new tools aimed at a mass market - like AI-based philanthropic advice, or fund-raising tools (like the Arthritis Research UK partnership with Microsoft on using AI to target pop-ups to potential donors). Here I suggest potential innovations that could transform how the bigger funders - and we at Nesta - might work in the future. Open data as the default The first step is to move further towards open data as the default. For all of this we need more energetic action - and more engagement from boards to ensure that the data really helps them answer the questions that matter.
Data Transparency 2017 — Data Foundation Tuesday, September 26th Data Transparency 2017 is Washington's largest open data event, bringing together government leaders, transparency advocates, and the technology industry to explore how technology can transform government, compliance, and the private sector. Data Transparency 2017 is our fifth annual flagship open data policy conference. Join on September 26 in Washington, DC. Three main areas: Deploying government data for public good, where recent reforms like the DATA Act are creating new resources to improve policymaking and bring transparency.Modernizing compliance data for efficiency and effectiveness. Last year’s open data policy conference, Data Transparency 2016, hosted the first-ever White House Open Data Innovation Summit.
dataactinfographic.pdf Transforming federal spending from documents into data The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) is the first U.S. open data law. federal spending information from disconnected documents into standardized, machine-readable data. The DATA Act mandates two basic steps: first, standardize the data elements and format of the federal government’s existing spending reports. The DATA Act does not change the content of the existing reports, nor does it change who sends or receives the existing reports. just imposes a common format and common data fields. The DATA Act directs OMB and Treasury to standardize the wide variety of existing reports related to spend- ing: This includes both reports by the agencies and reports by recipients of federal grants and contracts. Once government-wide data standards are imposed on all existing federal spending reports, OMB and Treasury must publish all that information on an expanded version of the USASpending.gov website. The DATA Act an overview
DATA Act 2022: Changing Technology, Changing Culture — Data Foundation 3: Establish a permanent governance structure for the DAIMS. reasury and OMB should not be expected to manage the DAIMS and its data elements indefinitely; they are responsible for financial management, not policy-driven transformation. And if the DAIMS is expanded to state and local spending, performance, awardee reporting, and other areas, as we recommend, the project will reach far beyond these agencies’ jurisdictions. Treasury and OMB therefore should establish a permanent, sustainable governance structure for data standards. It is clear that the community of spending-data consumers extends far beyond the executive branch. Logically, then, the ongoing management of the data structure will require its users’ participation and support. It is also clear that a governance structure for DATA Act standards should be financially sustainable, able to respond quickly to advances in technology and to remain independent from the whims of politics. 5: Improve the DAIMS’ data definitions. 7.
BIM Interoperability & Open Standards | Autodesk Buildings and infrastructure are complex, as are the Building Information Modeling (BIM) data and applications that support them. Autodesk offers more applications that further a BIM workflow than any other vendor. But we believe that AEC professionals need to be able to use any application from any vendor at any stage in design, construction, and operations processes. Autodesk is committed to advancing that degree of interoperability throughout the industry. Autodesk supports buildingSMART International, the organization that develops and maintains the IFC standard, the leading interoperability standard. Autodesk has supported the buildingSMART initiative on COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) BIM data standard. As the first major CAD vendor to run our applications on nonproprietary hardware, the Autodesk commitment to openness runs deep.