Stories of open data re-use and impact

GOVIS lunchtime forum 20 August 2014

Mogeo – building a business on open data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YCEBy5ldE&feature=youtu.be

Forward Works Viewer

Rebuilding a city…http://www.mediasuite.co.nz/forward-works.php

(Harkanwal Singh)

http://rawgit.com/kamal-hothi/presentation_dj/master/index.html#/

Data Journalism

BERL worked with Philanthropy New Zealand to deliver the “Giving New Zealand” report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryDnYNeqgSU

Charities Register Data

BERL also worked with Te Puni Kokiri. This is a quote from Phil Coghini, Te Puni Kokiri:

“The Charities Services data is the best source (if not the only source) of financial information that we have on Māori organisations that are registered charities.  Also its site, is flexible and open to enable anyone with the internet, to access a large chunk of their database contents , and download into useful formats (e.g. csv or excel) for further data manipulation and integration.

Te Puni Kōkiri, supplies this information to the Business and Economic Research Institute (BERL) who uses this information source (amongst others) to help update the Māori asset base and contribution to GDP statistics.

Also this helps reduce respondent burden, particularly for  useful information that is already accessible in the public domain (Charity Services).   

 

I’ve been an advocate for data re-use and open data where this can be done: cost effectively and efficiently, to help reduce respondent burden, help improve government transparency of its services, saving tax payers monies and time, and help reduce information asymmetry.

 

I believe the info from Charities Services is an excellent example of data re-use and releasing open data.”

Charities Register Data

Land, Air, Water Aotearoa

Alison StringerMinistry for the Environmenthttp://www.lawa.org.nz/

◦ Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUfZWE4PyA

◦ + remaining slides…

LAWAScreenshot & pics from launch

sensors

stations

telemetry

council

…

Internal council systems for qa/qc and archival

of time series data

SOS 2.0

WaterML 2.0

Time-series data server

Eg. Hilltop, Kisters, Aquatic Informatics, 52North

request

response

LAWA data analysis

Results/data to LAWA

SOS2and WaterML2 are internationally-basedStandard languages for asking a question to a time-series data server, and for getting the data back

LAWNZ, NEMaR