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MRS Census &
Geodemographics Group
Jeni Tennison - @JeniT
Peter Wells - @peterkwells
"The sale of the PAF with the Royal Mail was a
mistake. Public access to public sector data
must never be sold or given away again. This
type of information, like census information
and many other data sets, is very expensive to
collect and collate into useable form, but it
also has huge potential value to the economy
and society as a whole if it is kept as an open,
public good."
Bernard Jenkin, Chair of Public Administration Select Committee
“Open data is data that can be freely used,
reused and redistributed by anyone –
subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and share alike.”
Opendefinition.org
Open is not equivalent to free
open
data
free
service
Hypothesis 1: closed address files are monopoly
information assets, embedded in huge amounts of public
data, but which cannot be reproduced to a usable quality
Hypothesis 2: it is possible to build & maintain a
sustainable open address database better suited to
today's requirements using modern, collaborative
approaches to data management
A platform that brings together data about the places we live, work and visit.
Open Addresses Vision
• Meeting the expectations of the modern information economy
• Collaboratively maintained to benefit everyone
• Providing plenty of scope for value-added products & services that avoid lock-in
Modern requirements• Addresses are not just for posting mail
• Other requirements:– validation & auto-completion
– geocoding for route finding
– associating people with areas
– classification of addresses for targeting interventions
– linking datasets together
Modern maintenance
• Through collaboration
– professional / expert engagement
– the wider crowd
• Supplemented by
– targeted (funded) activity
• Addresses are well suited for this
Added value products
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addresses subsetadd detail
The Project• Funded from Release of Data Fund
– administered by Open Data User Group
– agreed by Public Sector Transparency Board
– operating out of Cabinet Office
• Legal feasibility
• Technical feasibility
• Sustainability feasibility
Symposium
What we found
• Legal feasibility– received legal opinion that validation embeds RM/OS IP
– doing due diligence on key open datasets
• Technical feasibility– data integration & inference from open data sets
– architecture for service provision including provenance
• Sustainability feasibility– identified customer needs & possible products
Alpha Phase• October & November
• Building minimum viable product– inferred addresses from open data
– initial website with one page per address
– data downloads via BitTorrent
• Stakeholder engagement– talking to prospective providers & users
• Initial business planning
Beta Phase• December to March 2015
• Developing operational service– providing API for data access
– providing lookup service with corrections
– crowd sourcing addresses from public / businesses
• Stakeholder engagement– talking to sponsors & customers
• Detailed business planning
Unique opportunity• Green field development
– do not need to be limited by legacy
• You can help this succeed– supply addresses
– use validation / lookup service
• You can benefit from its success– reduce costs
– build new products
