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January 23, 2013 Information Resource Management Committee

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Open Raleigh: Open data transparency program

City of Raleigh Departments: What is the impact?

Open Raleigh: Brand is important for City of Raleigh

Open Data: Examples of open data on the web

Open Raleigh: Open data portal timeline

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Open Raleigh is more than open data Open data portal

Raleigh Connected

Fiber project (NC NGN)

Why are we doing this? The City Council Resolution

The Mayor and the City Council seek to develop more transparency for City operations and spending

Citizen activist groups and entrepreneurs asking for open data

Open data trending in top ten of municipal initiatives for 2013 (Digital Cities, O’Reilly Media)

Open Raleigh Strategy

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Open data guided by global data standards and a governance framework Open Raleigh governance model Open Raleigh standards and principles based on Council

Resolution

City of Raleigh data strategy and the dispersal of data defined as open data to all channels through Open Raleigh

Open Raleigh brand is garnering national and international attention

Open Raleigh Strategy

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Visually interesting data sets enhance City of Raleigh brand

Open Raleigh led to uptick in information requests on open data initiatives from Cary, Durham and Winston-Salem

Need a strong brand to be seen as a regional innovator

Weak open data initiatives are criticized by citizen groups and often are supplanted by citizen driven open data initiatives(Open Ireland and the City of Asheville)

Raleigh seen as first major open data innovator in North Carolina

Open Raleigh must be seen as truly transparent and comprehensive to have a strong brand

Other regional cities are going to become our competitors (Richmond, Charlotte, Atlanta)

Open Raleigh Brand

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What is required from your department? Each department will have a data contact person

Only data that matches the City of Raleigh open data definitions will be allowed NO data exposing a person’s identity NO data that compromises public safety or City operations

High value open data sets in machine readable format

Cooperation in building and maintaining a comprehensive data catalog

City Departments: What is the impact?

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What is the benefit? Departments will receive assistance from the Open Raleigh

team

Departments will reduce burden from Freedom of Information Act requests

Departments will be in compliance with the Council resolution on open data

City Departments: What is the impact?

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Open Data Platform Socrata powers the Open Raleigh open data portal

Socrata is our vendor and the product suite can be found online

Socrata powers data.gov, The World Bank, the City of Chicago and many more

Socrata uses data visualization tools to narrate data sets Budget data examples

Somerville Check Book Explorer (City of Somerville, MA) World Bank: Project and Operations (Ghana) Crime data examples (City of Chicago)

American open data city examples City of Seattle proposed general fund by department City of Baltimore fixed speed cameras City of Austin data portal

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Project Milestone Estimated Completion

Define resource requirements 12/30/2012

Establish governance model, stakeholders, steering committee and oversight committee

12/30/2012

Inventory of internal datasets 1/25/2013

Establish dataset catalog 1/25/2013

Develop draft policies that adhere to the global Open Knowledge Foundation standard for standing up of public sector open data.

1/25/2013

Develop whitepaper on the potential economic impact of Open data on the Raleigh community

2/17/2013

Test our platform and developing internal processes for assuring our datasets meet all of the criteria of the Open Knowledge Foundation

2/19/2013

Deploy Socrata Software as a Service solution 3/15/2013

Open Data Portal Timeline