Implementing an Open Data Strategy

with ArcGIS HubPatrick Hammons, Esri

Agenda

• Open data overview

• Demonstration of ArcGIS Hub

• Building your open data catalog

• Sharing quality content

• What’s next

Open data overview

Historic Sharing Practices

FTP Sites Static snapshots over time

Quarterly releaseManual process

to produce

Typical use

Used by academia & neighboring

governments for analysis

Possibly aggregated into

commercial datasets

Mindset was to sell data

Modern Expectations of Sharing

Open Data Everyday

Transparency + enabling

economic development

Formalized process to license and share data to

the public

Often supported by governing

legislation

Enterprise technology

Leveraging Servers to share

out and ingest data

Minimal impact on the information

workers

YOULOCATION STRATEGY

An INNOVATION

OPEN DATA

Community Leaders

Start-Ups

Academia

Citizens

Agency Staff

ECOSYSTEM

ArcGIS Hub is an easy-to-configure cloud platformfor organizations to collaborate with their communitiesto accomplish information-driven initiatives

Part of the ArcGIS Platform

Open Data

Site

Providing open access to your published data

Simple

Integrated

Open

Desktop Web Device

Server Online Content and

Services

ArcGIS

Online

Open Data Principles

Accessible Discoverable

Explorable Collaborative

Open Data on ArcGIS Hub

Adoption

• 2,900+ Organizations around the world

• 295,000+ Datasets shared into Open Data

• 47,000,000+ Downloads in 2019

Capabilities

• Unlimited Bandwidth and API Usage

• No restriction on the number of datasets

• Auto-generated downloads

• Suite of applications to provide context

• ArcGIS sharing model

Using open data features

ArcGIS Hub Demo

Building your open data catalog

Leverages existing services and familiar workflows

ArcGIS for Server

Cloud Storage Content and Services ArcGIS HubArcGIS Online Groups

External APIs

Open Data WorkflowsAuto ETL and Custom Search

MetadataSearchShapefile KML GeoJSONCSV

• Tax Parcels

• Sales

• Foreclosures

• Street Centerlines

• Address Points

• Points of Interest

• Building Footprints

• Subdivision Boundary

▪ Purchase Card Transactions

▪ Use of Force Events

▪ Calls for Service

▪ Tax Districts

▪ Park Locations

▪ School Zones

▪ Public Buildings

▪ Parking Ticket Locations

Site Interact

Download

Preview

Federating groups into open data sites

Open Data Site

Your Organization Other Organization's

Automation

https://developers.ar

cgis.com/python/

Automation

http://bit.ly/bulk-

registration

Adding data to ArcGIS Hub

Building a Catalog

Sharing quality content

Creating high quality data

• Starting from desktop:

- Add attribute aliases

Creating high quality data

• Starting from desktop:

- Add attribute aliases

- Enable editor tracking

Making data more approachable in

Hub

Improving Data

Quality

Creating high quality data

• Registering datasets and editing metadata

• Title, description, access and use constraints (license), tags

• Licenses

- Creative Commons (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA), Open Data Commons license

- https://creativecommons.org/choose/

- If you have a terms of use, add it in your footer

• Add structured metadata on ArcGIS Online

- Accessible from dataset page and included in shapefile downloads

In the metadata of the ArcGIS Online itemDataset in open data

Adding other kinds of items

• Go beyond the feature service

- Web maps

- Web mapping applications

- Hub sites

- Hub initiatives

- PDFs, word docs

- External links

More than just data altogether

Consider the questions…

• What stories do the data tell?

• How can we generate insights?

• How is the data being used?

• What questions can we answer more

simply?

Consider the solutions…

• Story Maps

• Operations dashboards

• Locator applications

• Pages

Turning data into information

What’s next?For the open data capabilities of ArcGIS Hub

What’s next for open data in ArcGIS Hub?

• Very soon

- Basic metadata editing in Hub

• Later in 2020

- Data upload + geocoding

- More metadata capabilities

- License picking

Help direct the future of the Hub!

http://bit.ly/hub-metrics

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