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Open Data in EdmontonFrom $1Table of contentsNo headersCan open data be more open than closed data? EveryBlock.com How does privacy fit in? FOIP? Examples: crime statistics, energy consumption for an area, etc. Future of privacy? Government often hides under the umbrella of privacy Why do governments collect so much data about us? There is a lot of data that we could talk about making available that has no privacy issues at all...perhaps it makes sense to separate the discussion Does copyright fit in with open data? How about academic institutions? Textbooks, etc. Distinction: data about institutions vs data about citizens Make it open there are large archives Needs to be accessible Foundation for an Open Edmonton Free – both financially and philosophically Can open data be more open than closed data? EveryBlock.com How does privacy fit in? FOIP? Examples: crime statistics, energy consumption for an area, etc. Future or privacy? Government hides under the umbrella of privacy Why do governments collect so much data about us? Does copyright fit in with open data? How about academic institutions? Textbooks, etc. Distinction: data about institutions vs data about citizens Make it open there are large archives Needs to be accessible 1) one - mashup to find news in data sources, overlay crime stats on map of city where they have closed schools - interjurisdictional, inter-institutional collaboration - raw data feeds from all jurisdications of government - stream of data - need reliablity - data on broadband access, socioeconomic data - population density - survey data, open houses, from neighbourhood revitalizations, transit open houses - rss feed around ets changes - traffic accident data 2) two - mystops - shareedmonton - blog is in the works - maps.edmonton.ca - edmonton.ca/calendar - property assessments - planning and development - google maps via ets - edmonton police stats - spotcrime - environment canada - new epl catalogue - intelligent transportation system data - traffic cameras - council on the web - ama road reports - google traffic 4) four - cbc spark this week has a piece on vantrash and their open data - permissive licensing, crime maps for example - san francisco? gps on buses, built by third party, concern about intellectual property rights - san francisco? people can request data sets, and they are requesting HR and other confidential data....what are the limits? esp. personnel data - computer voice reading traffic updates 5) five - public consultation process, probably january - start using open formats for things that are easily convertible - as requests come in, they can start to convert to open formats - normalization of the data, from multiple systems - education piece, glossary - policy to ask before things go online capital region is trying to standardize on a mapping technology to do planning open standards open layers of the systems subscribe to the data? need a way to pull the data #yegdata
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Posted 03:10, 22 Oct 2009 #2 jgnat says: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Alberta.
http://www.oipc.ab.ca Posted 16:40, 27 Nov 2009 #3 jgnat says: More information on the application of the FOIP Act. http://foip.alberta.ca/ Posted 16:40, 27 Nov 2009 Viewing 3 of 3 comments: view all You must login to post a comment. |