Open Addresses - Open Identity Exchange (OIX) workshop

OIX Workshop29/04/2015

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Contents

- About Open Addresses

- Address matching

- Discovery project


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OverviewOpen Addresses is making UK address

data better for everyone.

We are building services that are

designed to meet a range of needs and

are using a collaborative maintenance

model that reduces costs whilst improving

quality.

Open Addresses is a start-up wholly

owned by the not-for-profit Open Data

Institute.

Maintain

Publish

Gather


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Benefits Social and economic value Speed and quality

Estimated social and economic

benefits to the UK of £110M each

year

Faster access to information about

130,000 new addresses each year,

enabling owners to get access to the

services they need and improving their

lives

Innovation Efficiency

Unlocking the potential for innovation

by ending restrictions on use and

supporting persistent identifiers for

addresses

More people can access address data,

helping smaller organisations, particularly

those serving local needs, to deliver better

services


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How people will use the services

● To enter free-format addresses

● To parse/interpret addresses

● To locate addresses

● To enrich other data

● To create new services


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Collaborative maintenance

The more users on the platform the higher the quality of the data

Service providers and users

automatically produce information about

new and existing addresses as they use

the services.

Our algorithms weight this data to

improve the data and service.

AddressBase

PAF


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Team

Jeni Tennison - Exec Director Steven Feldman - Non-Exec

Jeni is one of the UK’s open data pioneers. She

is a Director of the Open Data Institute, a

member of multiple Government data advisory

boards and chairs a W3C working group

Through Steven’s consultancy KnowWhere, he works

as a non-executive director, a strategic consultant and

an investor, advisor and mentor to technology startups

Andy Hird - Non-Exec Dr Mike Sanderson - Non-Exec

Andy is Managing Director of Aligned Assets

Limited, the UK’s largest independent Address

Management and gazetteer solution providers

Mike is the Director of Strategy at 1Spatial, a company

which provides software and solutions to manage

large spatial data. He is is also a Visiting Research

Fellow at Leeds Business School and a mentor on the

Judge Business School’s Ignite programme


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Contents


- Address matching

- Discovery project


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Address Matching

Address matching is a subset of the identity matching challenge.

UK addresses are hard, really hard.

Providing confidence that two addresses are the same is even harder.


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Differing

formats


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Incomplete

addresses

Image copyright www.kitchen-kraft.co.uk


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http://www.kitchen-kraft.co.uk/

Image from Ordnance Survey Open Names

Roads with

multiple

names


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http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html

Town

boundaries

Image copyright Flickr User Peter PZ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ppz/)


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Personal

addresses


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Address MatchingSome of the challenges:

Are these two addresses the same?

8 Acacia Avenue Slough SL1 1XX8 Acacia Avenue, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 1XX

8 Acacia Avenue Windsor SL1 1XXRose Cottage, Acacia Avenue, Slough, SL1 1XX

8 Acacia Avenue Windsor8 Acacia Avenue, Slough

Acacia Avenue, Slough, SL1 1XX 8 Acacia Avenue Slough SL1 1XX

8 Hoel Croes Y de Llanwrda SA19 8HD 8 Southcross Road, Llanwrda SA19 8HD


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Open, collaborative, trust

Open Addresses believes that an open and collaborative approach can

improve address matching.

Open - Use address data and services for any purpose; all you have to do is

say where you got it from.

Collaborative - We learn from how people use addresses. Anyone who uses

address matching services can contribute data, code, and to the roadmap.

Trust - Openly declares level of confidence. Embeds ethics and privacy.

Independently reproducible.


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Contents


- Address matching

- Discovery project


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Discovery Project: Scope

Capture needs

Estimate benefits

- more accessible identity services

- improved address matching

- growth of open and collaborative model

Prototype service

Report back to OIX event 30th June


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Discovery Project: Open Addresses

Existing capabilities

- platform in Alpha

- free-format/parsing API, confidence API

- open and collaborative model

- growing community of users & contributors

- independent and neutral

- strong team

Planned capabilities

- OS open data

- alternative addresses


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Let’s work together


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Open Addresses is building an open address

database for the UK.

It will be open and available to all, helping people,

companies, non-profits and government work

together to create a better service for everyone.

Offices

Where?

Technology

Open Addresses - Open Identity Exchange (OIX) workshop