3 Guidelines for Publishing Your First Open Data Sets
www.socrata.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: You’ve decided now is the time for your agency to get started with an open data program. But how do you decide which data sets to publish first?
There is no standard formula that applies to all organizations. Depending on your program goals and priorities, there can be any number of good places to start. However, in working with a variety of organizations, we have identified a few smart starting points that have worked well. We hope they will help you decide the best route to take as you kick off your open data initiative. 1.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Data, Federal Government, State Government
How Dunwoody Modernizes Their Public Works
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: A very cool find this morning is this short video from Dunwoody, Georgia about their public works department. With quick, concise info on who they are, what they do, and how to get in touch (including a great SeeClickFix mention), this is a great case of showing citizens why it's important to be involved.
People don't think of public works as first-responders like police and fire, because they respond to life threatening issues, but we are also first-responders and are out there on the front lines with the other guys.
Has your city improved communication between residents and public works?... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
SeeClickFix Reaches 500,000 Issues Reported!
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: We've been a busy bunch lately, but we couldn't let this fall by the wayside. Last week a citizen in Richmond,VA clocked in the 500,000th issue reported through SeeClickFix. That is a seriously big number, and we want to thank every single one of you for being a part of helping us hit over half a million issues.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, City Government
technickle/open311georeport · GitHub
github.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: A very cool find this morning is this short video from Dunwoody, Georgia about their public works department. With quick, concise info on who they are, what they do, and how to get in touch (including a great SeeClickFix mention), this is a great case of showing citizens why it's important to be involved. People don't think of public works as first-responders like police and fire, because they respond to life threatening issues, but we are also first-responders and are out there on the front lines with the other guys. Has your city improved communication between residents and public works?... read the full post.
Tags: City Government
SeeClickFix Reaches 500,000 Issues Reported!
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: We've been a busy bunch lately, but we couldn't let this fall by the wayside. Last week a citizen in Richmond,VA clocked in the 500,000th issue reported through SeeClickFix. That is a seriously big number, and we want to thank every single one of you for being a part of helping us hit over half a million issues.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Stack, City Government
technickle/open311georeport · GitHub
github.com
on 05/07/2013
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools
Open Budget Oakland and OpenSpending
blog.okfn.org
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: From small beginnings in a hackathon, here’s a great story from Oakland of how OpenSpending can be deployed to improve civic engagement on a local level. The beta version of Open Budget Oakland went public last week with the release of our mayor’s proposed budget for the next two years. Her announcement was made Wednesday afternoon and by evening we had visualized and made available for discussion three levels of spending data. Within the week, the site was starting to help people make sense of the budget, and City Council invited us to present the site at their next meeting as they begin the budget process.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, Civic, Data
AWS Management Console now available for AWS GovCloud (US)
aws.amazon.com
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: When you sign in using the AWS GovCloud (US) specific login page, the console provides access to your AWS GovCloud (US) resources and is completely isolated from other AWS regions. The console provides an easy-to-use graphical interface to manage your AWS GovCloud (US) resources. Consoles available today are Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. The Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR and Amazon SWF consoles will be coming soon. Instructions on how to access the console are available in our Users Guide.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Federal Government, Government, State Government
Digital Hub | Release All the Data
resources.cityofchicago.org
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: Last December, we released current traffic congestion estimates and received a tremendous amount of feedback along the lines of, “Sweet! But can we have more data? ”
We released almost 9 million new rows of data across two new datasets: The historical archive is available for each region and segment of Chicago’s streets. Each archive displays the estimated speed of traffic on Chicago’s roads based on the bus traffic around the city. Historical traffic data by region will be available from March 2007 and segment data—which reflects much smaller portions of roads—is available from August 2011. The archives will be regularly updated for a complete history.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Data, Digital, Googlereader, Hub, Ifttt
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
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