Public Information/Notes

= Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information =

Notes from the Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information on 1st November 2008.

Participants

 * Richard Allen
 * William Perrin
 * Paul Appleby
 * John Sheridan
 * Terry Freedman
 * Nick Holmes
 * Graham Seaman
 * Vicky Sargent
 * Chris Corbin
 * Rob McKinnon
 * Richard Stirling
 * Susanne Richter
 * Simon Parish
 * Ian Ibbotson
 * Michael Michaeldis
 * Chris Taggart
 * Robert Brook
 * Dominic Campbell
 * Liz Turner
 * Rufus Pollock
 * Jonathan Gray
 * Nick Halliday

Agenda

 * Hello
 * Introducing Ourselves
 * Introduction: What PSI is, Why Needed, What's on Offer
 * Rufus: Quick Intro about CKAN + PSI
 * POI Task Force
 * Local Government
 * OCTO - District of Columbia
 * John Sheridan: how does current system work + why is it the way it is?
 * Looking at different kinds of rights in public information (PSI, third party rights, ...)
 * Lunch
 * Exemplars, Being Specific, 'Retailing'
 * Visualisation?
 * 15-20 things, core data
 * pragmatics/politics
 * motivations
 * why do people want to have access to information? (external)
 * why should government share? carrots and sticks... (internal)
 * Other
 * registries/discovery - 'discovery landscape'
 * crown copyright - from perspective of prospective re-user
 * landscape of organisations/institutions/initiatives
 * local gov
 * opsi
 * european level + inspire
 * sustainability
 * legal frameworks

Summary
Exemplars <--> The Core

Metadata + Data: the iceberg

Need to prioritise for politics

15-20 things

 * IARs
 * OPSI
 * Government departments
 * inflation data
 * Bank of England
 * ONS
 * Treasury
 * CO2 data
 * NSG (national street gazeteer)
 * Not obtainable
 * NLPG (national land property gazeteer)
 * Can buy it.
 * http://www.nlpg.org.uk/nlpg/link.htm?id=2007
 * Geocoders dataset, Postcode to administrative areas
 * Can buy from OS
 * OS
 * http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/
 * http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/v1/AdministrativeGeography.htm
 * http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/v1/AdministrativeGeography.owl
 * electoral boundary information
 * postcode to shape
 * admin (geo)
 * police (?) (national police impr. agency)
 * school (edubase)
 * stats? (performance, ofsted reports, ...)
 * nhs/health/medical
 * NHS choices - API, nc
 * http://www.nhs.uk/nhscwebservices/Pages/Webservices.aspx
 * varies from area to area
 * statistical
 * political
 * statistical
 * licensed premises (vice)
 * gazeteer
 * crime (new!)
 * temperature data
 * forecast data (customised forecasts) (£)
 * http://www.ecomet.eu/members/UK.htm
 * companies house (£)
 * government expediture
 * government contracts over a certain amount
 * (OJEC) official journal of the european communities
 * http://ted.europa.eu/Exec?Template=TED/editorial_page.htm&DataFlow=ShowPage.dfl&StatLang=EN
 * http://ted.europa.eu/Exec?DataFlow=ShowPage.dfl&Template=TED/important_legal_notice
 * http://www.ojec.com/WhatIsTheOJEC.aspx
 * HMT
 * PFI registries
 * court records/cases
 * http://www.registry-trust.org.uk/
 * costs money
 * http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/onlineservices/xhibit/index.htm
 * crown copyright: http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/aboutus/termscond.htm
 * planning applications
 * portal?
 * available but cost money
 * listed buildings
 * council
 * english heritage has approx. list online
 * consultations + responses
 * not available now but will be in future
 * tell them what you think
 * RDFa
 * select committee submitted comments
 * gov.uk jobs
 * debt
 * transport
 * naptan.org.uk
 * nptdr
 * midas
 * accidents, public service
 * maintenance
 * environmental
 * pollution
 * noise
 * incidents
 * flooding
 * water quality
 * contaminated areas
 * water quality
 * contaminated areas

Moving forward

 * William Perrin's homework
 * critique of OCTO: http://data.octo.dc.gov
 * create list of main things to go after.. the big useful datasets
 * Public information workshop in March
 * 15-20 things
 * full list + refine down

What is Needed

 * IARs: need a registry and it should be openly available
 * Metadata should be available in simple basic form (dublin core, RDFa, simple db dump ...)
 * Datasets to focus on (the 15-20)
 * Exemplars
 * Compelling stories for government

Concluding Remarks

 * discovery/portal landscape: directgov, IAR, nhs choices, transport direct
 * SUABW had 450 ideas
 * 80k for taking ideas forward
 * equivalent of BBC backstage for UK Gov
 * what should we do, moving forward? move this out of geek corner...
 * increasing size of registry/repository
 * need to be able to show ministers (still screen shots)
 * need a package - ipr all sorted out, these kinds of sites, etc.
 * Rufus: material available for others to re-use will encourage re-use
 * Richard Allen: role for things like CKAN, show us a template, a recipe
 * John Sheridan: read W3C guidelines!
 * Rufus: good to see wider turn out
 * William: part of POIR remit
 * In the kitchen you always need kitchen equipment, tools... (e.g. IARs, click use license, ...)
 * build on group: more events, mailing list
 * COMMUNIA event in March
 * William: several government ministers interested, Richard Allen, potential growth of interest, ...
 * Richard: all travelling the same journey, and headed in right direction...