3 Guidelines for Publishing Your First Open Data Sets
www.socrata.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: You’ve decided now is the time for your agency to get started with an open data program. But how do you decide which data sets to publish first?
There is no standard formula that applies to all organizations. Depending on your program goals and priorities, there can be any number of good places to start. However, in working with a variety of organizations, we have identified a few smart starting points that have worked well. We hope they will help you decide the best route to take as you kick off your open data initiative. 1.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Data, Federal Government, State Government
Historical Census Tables
data.london.gov.uk
on 05/15/2013
Excerpt: An Excel workbook containing tables of historical census data for a range of indicators dating back to 1961. Available in Excel 2003 (csv download) and Excel 2007-10 (excel download) formats. GeographyLondon Boroughs
ExtentGreater London
Author NameCensus Information Scheme
Author Mailcensus@london. gov. uk
MaintainerCensus Information Scheme
Maintainer emailcensus@london. gov. uk
Date range1961-2011
Release Date6 May 2013
Metadata update2013-05-15
License SummaryOpen Government Licence
License DetailsAdapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licenced under the open government licence v. 1.... read the full post.
Tags: Census, City Government, Data, UK
Edmonton Unveils “The Way We Live” Citizen Dashboard
www.socrata.com
on 05/13/2013
Excerpt: On July 7, 2010, Edmonton’s City Council approved The Way We Live: Edmonton’s People Plan, a 10-year strategic initiative that helps clarify the role the City has in quality of life issues. The plan is the third addition to The Way Ahead: City of Edmonton’s Strategic Plan, a collection of 10-year goals to improve Edmonton’s livability by creating a socially sustainable, civil, and caring society.
The Way We Live Implementation Plan includes six goals. They promote improvements in connectedness, leisure, affordability, safety, attractiveness, and sustainability in the City of Edmonton.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government
Local Authority Collected Waste Management, London
data.london.gov.uk
on 05/13/2013
Excerpt: WasteDataFlow is a web-based system for quarterly reporting on municipal waste data by local authorities to central government. It is also used by the Environment Agency for monitoring biodegradable waste sent to landfill under the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme. Data includes Household waste data, Household civic amenity site waste, Household recycling/composted/reuse, Non household waste, Incineration with /without EfW (energy for Waste), and recycling. The annual data can be found on the DEFRA website. License DetailsCopyright of data and/or information presented or attached in this document may not reside solely with this Department. Please contact us or see guidance on Copyright at: http://www. defra. gov.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
How Dunwoody Modernizes Their Public Works
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: A very cool find this morning is this short video from Dunwoody, Georgia about their public works department. With quick, concise info on who they are, what they do, and how to get in touch (including a great SeeClickFix mention), this is a great case of showing citizens why it's important to be involved.
People don't think of public works as first-responders like police and fire, because they respond to life threatening issues, but we are also first-responders and are out there on the front lines with the other guys.
Has your city improved communication between residents and public works?... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
SeeClickFix Reaches 500,000 Issues Reported!
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: We've been a busy bunch lately, but we couldn't let this fall by the wayside. Last week a citizen in Richmond,VA clocked in the 500,000th issue reported through SeeClickFix. That is a seriously big number, and we want to thank every single one of you for being a part of helping us hit over half a million issues.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, City Government
technickle/open311georeport · GitHub
github.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
Excerpt: An Excel workbook containing tables of historical census data for a range of indicators dating back to 1961. Available in Excel 2003 (csv download) and Excel 2007-10 (excel download) formats. GeographyLondon Boroughs ExtentGreater London Author NameCensus Information Scheme Author Mailcensus@london. gov. uk MaintainerCensus Information Scheme Maintainer emailcensus@london. gov. uk Date range1961-2011 Release Date6 May 2013 Metadata update2013-05-15 License SummaryOpen Government Licence License DetailsAdapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licenced under the open government licence v. 1.... read the full post.
Tags: Census, City Government, Data, UK
Edmonton Unveils “The Way We Live” Citizen Dashboard
www.socrata.com
on 05/13/2013
Excerpt: On July 7, 2010, Edmonton’s City Council approved The Way We Live: Edmonton’s People Plan, a 10-year strategic initiative that helps clarify the role the City has in quality of life issues. The plan is the third addition to The Way Ahead: City of Edmonton’s Strategic Plan, a collection of 10-year goals to improve Edmonton’s livability by creating a socially sustainable, civil, and caring society.
The Way We Live Implementation Plan includes six goals. They promote improvements in connectedness, leisure, affordability, safety, attractiveness, and sustainability in the City of Edmonton.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government
Local Authority Collected Waste Management, London
data.london.gov.uk
on 05/13/2013
Excerpt: WasteDataFlow is a web-based system for quarterly reporting on municipal waste data by local authorities to central government. It is also used by the Environment Agency for monitoring biodegradable waste sent to landfill under the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme. Data includes Household waste data, Household civic amenity site waste, Household recycling/composted/reuse, Non household waste, Incineration with /without EfW (energy for Waste), and recycling. The annual data can be found on the DEFRA website. License DetailsCopyright of data and/or information presented or attached in this document may not reside solely with this Department. Please contact us or see guidance on Copyright at: http://www. defra. gov.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
How Dunwoody Modernizes Their Public Works
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: A very cool find this morning is this short video from Dunwoody, Georgia about their public works department. With quick, concise info on who they are, what they do, and how to get in touch (including a great SeeClickFix mention), this is a great case of showing citizens why it's important to be involved.
People don't think of public works as first-responders like police and fire, because they respond to life threatening issues, but we are also first-responders and are out there on the front lines with the other guys.
Has your city improved communication between residents and public works?... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
SeeClickFix Reaches 500,000 Issues Reported!
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: We've been a busy bunch lately, but we couldn't let this fall by the wayside. Last week a citizen in Richmond,VA clocked in the 500,000th issue reported through SeeClickFix. That is a seriously big number, and we want to thank every single one of you for being a part of helping us hit over half a million issues.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, City Government
technickle/open311georeport · GitHub
github.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
Excerpt: WasteDataFlow is a web-based system for quarterly reporting on municipal waste data by local authorities to central government. It is also used by the Environment Agency for monitoring biodegradable waste sent to landfill under the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme. Data includes Household waste data, Household civic amenity site waste, Household recycling/composted/reuse, Non household waste, Incineration with /without EfW (energy for Waste), and recycling. The annual data can be found on the DEFRA website. License DetailsCopyright of data and/or information presented or attached in this document may not reside solely with this Department. Please contact us or see guidance on Copyright at: http://www. defra. gov.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
How Dunwoody Modernizes Their Public Works
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: A very cool find this morning is this short video from Dunwoody, Georgia about their public works department. With quick, concise info on who they are, what they do, and how to get in touch (including a great SeeClickFix mention), this is a great case of showing citizens why it's important to be involved.
People don't think of public works as first-responders like police and fire, because they respond to life threatening issues, but we are also first-responders and are out there on the front lines with the other guys.
Has your city improved communication between residents and public works?... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
SeeClickFix Reaches 500,000 Issues Reported!
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: We've been a busy bunch lately, but we couldn't let this fall by the wayside. Last week a citizen in Richmond,VA clocked in the 500,000th issue reported through SeeClickFix. That is a seriously big number, and we want to thank every single one of you for being a part of helping us hit over half a million issues.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, City Government
technickle/open311georeport · GitHub
github.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
Excerpt: We've been a busy bunch lately, but we couldn't let this fall by the wayside. Last week a citizen in Richmond,VA clocked in the 500,000th issue reported through SeeClickFix. That is a seriously big number, and we want to thank every single one of you for being a part of helping us hit over half a million issues.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, City Government
technickle/open311georeport · GitHub
github.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ” We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
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