Birgitte kjærgaard - Open Data in Aarhus Municipality

Open Data in Aarhus Birgitte Kjærgaard

bikj@aarhus.dk The City of Aarhus

Kick off event, Big Data VIZ Copenhagen, 12 March 2013

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Open Data Aarhus

•  August 2012 •  SmartAarhus Why? •  Support the vision behind SmartAarhus •  Another kind of democracy •  New and different kind of services •  High level of synergies from partnerships •  Transparency •  Economic value

Organization

•  Central Region of Denmark, Aarhus University, Alexandra Institute, private enterprises and The City of Aarhus

Main objectives

•  Open data platform

•  Community

•  Aarhus Data Drinks

•  Events

•  Forum on platform

CKAN 2.0 Drupal

Data

•  Geodata •  Traffic data •  Economic data •  Statistical •  Historical data •  …

•  Real time transaction data from the libraries •  Data about the library media in stock •  Property list •  Population data •  Geodata about hiking trails, parks, bonfire places, shelters, mountainbike routes etc. •  Street names and codes •  Citizenship and ancestry in Aarhus •  CVR production units •  Preservation-worthy buildings in Aarhus •  BBR buildings and properties in Aarhus •  Data about raw material findings in The Central Region of Denmark

Data in the pipeline

•  Real time data about waste registration •  Data about the distribution system regarding heating •  Location of glass and paper containers •  Real time data about waste gas •  Traffic counts (manual and real time) •  Winter service •  Cycle counts •  P-zones •  Website statistics •  Data from the central telephone service •  Data from Aarhus Water (local water utility) •  Geodata about medical practices in The Central

Region of Denmark

Challenges

•  Political concerns

•  Internal worries – What’s in it for me?

•  Resources

•  No generic middleware

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Next steps

•  Release •  Event for private enterprises •  Use cases •  Open Data principles

Thank you!

Birgitte Kjærgaard bikj@aarhus.dk

The City of Aarhus