Open Government Data in the City of Vienna

Open Government Data in the City of Vienna.

Thomas Jöchler @ogdwien

I am Thomas Jöchler I have a background in Humanities and Journalism.

I am Head of Project Developmentat wien.at since 2008.

www.wien.at – official Homepage for the city of Vienna

wien.at – 5 pillars

information from 70 departments

e-Government services videos

local sites23 districts

city maps traffic, infrastructure, cultural,environmental + planning procederes

a lot of “content” is online* - is it “data”?(*some of it since 1996)

17.5.2011 Launch of the Viennese data portal: data.wien.gv.at

Overview: data.wien.gv.at

Data Catalogue

Communication

Motivation

Apps

Licence

Motivation

#1 Civil Society: communities pushing for open data

#2 Politics November 2010: new coalitionSocial Democrats and Green Party

Mayor and Governor: Michael Häupl

Vice-Mayor and Vice-Governor: Maria Vassilakou

#2 Government Agreement

#3 Other cities

3rd largest city

Open Commons region

launch of open data portal announced for fall 2011

#4 Inside administration: working group of experts from various departments

Members of the OGD competence center1st place e-Government Award

#5 Mobile Internet

Smartphones

everybody wants her/his App

new Usecases

Location based services

Data Catalogue

Chronology 2011

„Yes“ to Open Data

OGD Phase 1May

March

OGD Phase 2June

OGD Phase 3

OGD Phase 4December

October

Basemaps

Statistics

Infrastructure

EventsAPI

Traffic

Dataset: data about the data

multiple Formats(WMS, WFS, WMTS;GML, KML, JSON;RSS, CSV)

Metadata

Data Quality

Time and Period

Data Source

Attributes

Licence

Direct Access to original data

Main Focus:readable by machines

Code

Open Formats: „readable“ by humans

up to date

Licence

Discussion

grassroots:free data now

pay for data

free:on „our“ terms

Previous Experience: Geo Shop

Geo Data Products for sale(Prices in EURO)

120,-

0,-

230,-

1.300,-

Specific Terms of Use

No successful model

usability

maintainance costsdifferent licences

low usage

Decision: CC-BY 3.0-AT

free to use + remix well-established

commercial use possible

Communication

Talk about it (we call it platforms*)

* 5 platforms in 2011. Video-on-demand: http://data.wien.gv.at/veranstaltungen/

Listen. Respond. Retweet.#ogdwien @ogdwien

Ask for feedback.Appreciate it.

Open up internal silos. Praise it.

Learn to tell your story (+)+ embrace your Toilet-App

Apps

Public Toilets

App #1: „Toilet Map Vienna“Augmented Reality, incl. Toilets for disabled

Infrastructure

App #4: „Next. Vienna“Where is the next…?

App #7: „OpenVienna“

App #6: „Pocket Austria“(desktop + mobile version)

Recycling stations

App tells you where to go with your waste:App #14: „wegwerfen.at“ („throw away“)

MapsOr: printed maps will become screens

App #15: „Kartenwerkstatt“ (MapWorkshop)e.g. Population Density enumeration districts

App #18: „Open Data City Map“(uses all geodata, including base maps)

Parking

App #10: „Kurzparkzone“ (short term parking zone)

Events

App #11: „Vienna Events“

Conclusion

pick low hanging fruit

revisit your website;turn content into data

communicate

Images: cc-by-sa http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/Slide 9: wien.at; slide 2, 27+pictures Hongkong: Thomas JöchlerEnglish text in app screenshots: montage by Thomas Jöchler

Be open. Thank you. Thomas Jöchler

thomas.joechler@extern.wien.gv.at @ogdwien