Irelands Open Data Initiative and Open Data Strategy

Ireland’s Open Data Initiative and Open Data Strategy 2017 – 2022 Joint meeting of Public Bodies Working Group (PBWG) and Open Data Liaison Officers 24 October, 2017 Fiona Morley Clarke, Open Data Unit, DPER

Open Data • What is Open Data? • “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it- subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike” (Open Data Handbook) • Open Knowledge defines Open as “anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness). ” • The concept of Open Data is about making data held by public bodies available and easily accessible online for reuse and redistribution.

Open Data Initiative • Ireland’s Open Data Initiative • Key part of the Government’s Public Service reform activities • Commenced in 2014 • Benefits • • Social, economic and political benefits Transparency, citizen engagement and improved services Improve risk management, depth of policy analysis and create efficiencies Business innovation and economic growth • Increase data sharing and innovative use across Public sector • Data is recognised as a strategic and valuable asset • Follows early initiatives by Fingal County Council, and others

Open Data Initiative • Aligned with Government policy e. Government Strategy Proposed National Data Infrastructure PSI Regulations Open Data Public Service Reform Programme Civil Service Renewal Plan EU & International Initiatives Open Government Partnership Action Plan

Open Data Initiative • Progress to Date • National Open Data portal in place data. gov. ie • A technical framework for open data developed – this ensures that data is published in a consistent way and meet clearly defined standards • Governance arrangements put in place (Open Data Governance Board and Public Bodies Working Group) • Foundation document for the development of an Open Data Strategy published in 2015 • Engagement with public bodies to identify high value datasets • Engagement with stakeholders to promote the Open Data initiative • National Open Data Strategy 2017 – 2022 published and implementation underway

Open Data Technical Framework 5 key components • • • Open Data Licence Recommended Formats Metadata Schema Recommended Standards Recommended Unique Resource Identifiers

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Open Data Strategy 2017 -2022 • Published July 2017 • Consultation prior to publication

Open Data Strategy 2017 -2022 • Two Core Objectives • publication of high value government data in open format, making it publicly available and freely reusable • engaging with a broad community of stakeholders to promote its social and economic benefits 7 themes • broaden the range of public bodies actively engaged in the Open Data initiative; • broaden the scope of the Initiative and improve the quality, quantity and range of datasets available on the Portal data. gov. ie; • continued engagement with stakeholders and encourage the use of Open Data; • support and encourage various groups of Open Data Users, • the provision of a framework to support and train public bodies in their Open Data activities; • evaluation of the impacts and benefits of the Initiative; and • ensuring that effective governance structures are in place to implement the Strategy.

Implementation of Strategy • Framework for Open Data Training (single supplier) has been put in place. The first 4 training courses took place in September. 4 more courses taking place in October. • Framework for Open Data Technical support (multi-supplier) has been put in place with contracts signed with 8 companies for each of 2 Lots • Lot 1 Technical Assistance and Support for Open Data Management Identification, Preparation, Publication and Maintenance • Lot 2 Technical Assistance and Support for the Use of Data Visualisation and Analytics Tools • Open Data Engagement Fund for 2017/2018 to promote the usage of data available on the national open data portal – launched 3 rd October. Closing date 25 th Oct. • Open Data Unit to begin meeting with public bodies – identification of high value datasets, publication plans

National Open Data Portal • Significantly Enhanced since its launch in 2014 • Currently links to over 5400 datasets

Open Data Portal – Homepage links

Open Data Portal – Suggest a Dataset

Open Data Portal- Resources and Publications

Thank You Email opendata@per. gov. ie