Making Data Publishing and Participation in Data.Gov Easy Next Generation Data.Gov Workshop April...

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Making Data Publishing and Participation in Data.Gov Easy

Next Generation Data.Gov Workshop

April 14, 2011

Presenters

• Hyon Kim, Deputy Program Director, Data.Gov PMO– hyon.kim@gsa.vov

• Alan Vander Mallie, Program Manager, DataGov PMO– alan.vandermallie@gsa.gov

• Kevin Merritt, Founder and CEO– kevin.merritt@socrata.com– Twitter: @kmerritt

Agenda

• Current publishing challenges• Three ways to streamline publishing• What about DMS?• Additional capabilities for publishers• Expected results• Open forum

Current Challenges

• Duplication of effort– A parallel manual process to participate in Data.Gov

• Time– Cumbersome. No automation from transactional systems

• Inability to affect the citizen experience– Only tool is a downloadable file

• Lack of visibility– Who’s using the data? How? When?

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Three Ways to publish data

• Interactive publishing• Automating publishing• Federating existing data

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Demo

• Publish a dataset with csv upload– Quick, easy, no IT required– Maintenance is made easier

• Real-time publishing via the API– Seattle 911 data: http

://data.seattle.gov/Fire/Seattle-Real-Time-Fire-911-Calls/kzjm-xkqj– Complete Automation (cost reduction, time, accuracy, realtime

data more valuable)

• Federation demo– Data.Gov is no longer disconnected from your agency Open Data

initiative

• Curating the experience– Create default filters, create a map

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SAFOUEN RABAH
Wally always says: If you can attach a spreadsheet to an email, you can publish with Socrata.

Federation for Agencies

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• Effortless• Automatic• Agency

collaboration• Expands reach

What about DMS?

• Today:– Identify a downloadable dataset on your agency website– Gather the metadata for the dataset– Fill out the DMS Excel template and upload to the DMS– Submission then flows through the DMS five approval

stages: sub agency, agency, PMO, security, QA.

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Future of DMS

• No immediate changes • Evaluating ways to improve DMS soon– Maintain all the safeguards to ensure data quality– But streamline entering metadata online – Or via the new publisher API– Hopefully no more templates

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Additional Capabilities for Publishers

• Visibility– Sitewide Analytics, available to Data.Gov PMO only– Dataset Analytics. Suggest

http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Milk-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/pkfj-5jsd/stats

• Moderation– [Kevin, you probably know a good one to demo]

• Home page customization– I would just show http://datagov.socrata.com/admin/

home and speak to it

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Expected results

• Saves you time• Eliminates parallel process• Automates publishing (operational data)• Gives you flexibility and control in how to

participate• Gives you the ability to engage with your

constituents (or not)• Gives you complete visibility

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Questions? Comments?

Open Forum

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• Contact info for follow up questions and feedback

• Arrange for a tailored discussion for your agency

Next Steps

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Kevin Merritt CEO Socrata (206) 340-8008 x111(425) 301-8142

Kevin.merritt@socrata.com

Charles Blanchet VP of Sales Socrata (415) 505-1662 charles@socrata.com

Todd Stavish Data.gov Agency Liaison Socrata (646) 256-4428 Todd.stavish@socrata.com

Marion Royal Program Director Data.Gov (202) 208-4643 Marion.royal@gsa.gov

Hyon Kim Deputy Program Director Data.Gov (202) 694-8148 Hyon.kim@gsa.gov

Alan Vander Mallie Project Manager Data.gov (202) 501-6901 Alan.vandermallie@gsa.gov

Chris Metcalf Technical Program Mgr Socrata (206) 340-8008 Chris.metcalf@socrata.com

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Embrace the possibilities!

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