Tracey P. Lauriault

NIRSA Seminar Room

National University of Ireland Maynooth

2nd April 2015

Danish Institute for Study Abroad Communications:

New Media and Changing Communities Dublin Visit

Political Arithmetic,

Territorial Geometry and

Programmed Cities

Table of Contents

1. Research Question

2. 2 Frameworks

3. 3 Case Studies a) Re-Ontologizing the City, From Old School

Classifications to Rules Based/Object Oriented Mapping

b) Measuring openness in the city: Open data and open government

c) The making of homeless people and calculating homelessness

1. Research Question

Research Question

How are digital data materially and

discursively supported and processed

about cities and their citizens?

2. Research Frameworks

Kitchin’s Data Assemblage

Attributes Elements Systems of

thought

Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models,

ideologies, rationalities, etc.

Forms of

knowledge

Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites,

experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.

Finance Business models, investment, venture capital,

grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.

Political

economy

Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion,

ethical considerations, etc.

Govern-

mentalities /

Legalities

Data standards, file formats, system requirements,

protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual

property regimes, etc.

Materialities &

infrastructures

Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors,

scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.

Practices Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours,

scientific conventions, etc.

Organisations

& institutions

Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers,

retailers, government agencies, universities,

conferences, clubs and societies, committees and

boards, communities of practice, etc.

Subjectivities

& communities

Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts,

scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.

Places Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms,

business parks, etc, and their agglomerations

Marketplace

For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs,

maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations,

etc.

S

yst

em

s of

thought

Making up People & Spaces

(Modified Ian Hacking Framework of Making Up People, Lauriault 2012)

3. Case Studies

CS1-Re-Ontologizing the City

Skin of the earth Object modelling

5 skin of the earth objects

• Ways

• Water

• Vegetation

• Artificial

• Exposed

• Z-Layer

• Superimposed

• Networked

• Grouped

• GDF1 GDF2 centrelines

• Sites – shopping maps

• Locals - Wicklow Mountains

• Boundaries

Seamless, topologically consistent blanket of polygons covers

the entire surface of Ireland w/no holes or gaps

CS1 Plan - Re-Ontologizing the City

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE: National, Dublin OBJECTS OF STUDY:

Study of the OSI data assemblage of the PRIME2, examine how Dublin and city/urban areas are understood in the new object oriented data model, assess if this changes how cities are modelled and then acted upon.

TIME FRAME: 2014-2018 DATA and INFORMATION Collection:

CASE STUDY OUTPUTS: A. 1 Case Study Report B. Data Assemblage C. Tracing the Production of Space - Making up Dublin, genealogy from

class to object D. Academic Publications

CS DATA MANAGEMENT and ETHICS:

CS2-Measuring Openness in the City

Research Data Canada

Archiving, Management and Preservation of Geospatial Data

National Consultation on Access to Scientific Data Final Report

(NCASRD)

2010 1990 1995 2000 2005

National Data Archive Consultation

(SSHRC)

Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap Analysis

The dissemination of government geographic data in Canada: guide to best practices

Research Data Strategy Working Group Standing Committee on Industry, Science and

Technology

Toward a National Digital Information Strategy: Mapping the Current Situation in

Canada (LAC)

Canadian Digital Information

Strategy (CDIS) (LAC)

IPY

1985 2014

Open Data Consultations

Mapping the Data

Landscape: Report of the

2011 Canadian Research

Data

Summit

Digital Economy Consultation,

Industry Canada

Community Data Roundtable Privacy (Geo) Sensitive Data (Geo) Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners

Geomatics Accord Signed Canadian Geospatial Data Policy

Liberating the Data Proposal

VGI Primer Cloud (Geo) OD Advisory Panel OGP

G8

Subjectivities &

Forms of Knowledge

• Policies

• Reports

• Proposals

• Recommendations

• Consultation

2008

MiningWatch Canada & Great Lakes United by

Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal Defence

Fund).Demand release of mine tailing data

Digital Infrastructure

Leadership Council

2010 1990 1995 2000 2005 1985 2014

Data Liberation Initiative (DLI)

Geogratis Data Portal

GeoBase Canadian

Internet Public Policy

Clinic

Maps Data and Government Information

Services (MADGIC) Carleton U

GeoConnections GeoGratis

Census Data Consortium Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

Atlas of Canada Online (1st)

CeoNet Discovery

Portal

Research Data

Network

How'd they Vote CivicAccess.ca

Campaign for Open

Government (FIPA)

Canadian Association

of Public Data Users

Datalibre.ca

VisibleGovernment.ca I Believe in Open Campaign

Change Camps Start

Nanaimo BC Toronto

Open Data Portals

Edmonton Mississauga launches open data

Citizen Factory B.C.'s Climate Change Data Catalogue

Open Parliament DatadotGC.ca

Ottawa

Ottawa, Prince George, Medicine Hat Data.gc.ca

Global TV Hansard in XML

Langley Let the Data Flow

GovCamp Fed. Expenses Montreal Ouvert Fed.Gov. Travel and Hospitality Expenses London Hamilton Windsor Open Data Hackfest

Aid Agency Proactive.ca DataBC

Hacking Health 14 Cities Quebec Ontario OGP

3 Cities Alberta

G8

Community Data Program

FCM Quality of Life Reporting System

Geographic and Numeric

Information System (GANIS)

Materialities / Infrastructures • Consortia

• Portals/Catalogs

• Maps

• Open data/Open Gov Events

2009

CS2 Plan - Measuring Openness in the City

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE: Dublin, R.O.Ireland, Northern Ireland, Ottawa & Montreal, Canada

TIME FRAME: 2014-2018

DATA and INFORMATION Collection

CASE STUDY OUTPUTS: A. 2 site specific city case studies on Open data and Open Government B. Data Assemblages & Landscape o Generalized landscape of the types of actors involved in Open Data o 2 jurisdictionally based data assemblages o 1 generalized open data assemblage based on both geographic locations C. Open Data discourse Analysis – Pitch, Indicators & Performance systems,

City and National Strategies D. Academic Papers

CS DATA MANAGEMENT and ETHICS:

CS3 -The making of homeless people

and calculating homelessness

http://hifis.hrsdc.gc.ca/index-eng.shtml

http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/pub/Counting_Homelessness.pdf

http://homeless.samhsa.gov/ResourceFiles/Survey

ofhomelessnessinCanada-

SteetcomponentPilot_Test.pdf

Municipal Data Collection Tool

CS3 -The making of homeless people

and calculating homelessness

https://www.hudexchange.info/hmis/ http://www.bphc.org/whatwedo/homelessness/e

mergency-shelter-commission/Pages/Annual-

Homeless-Census.aspx

https://www.census.gov

/prod/www/nshapc/N

SHAPC4.html

CS3 -The making of homeless people

and calculating homelessness

http://www.homelessdublin.ie/pass

http://www.dublincity.ie/official-street-count-figures-rough-sleeping-winter-2014-across-dublin-region

http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/homelesspersonsinirelandaspecialcensus2011report/

Homeless Data dissemination

http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/

http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/

CS3 Plan - The making of homeless

people and calculating homelessness

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE: Dublin, Ireland, Boston, US, Ottawa, Canada

TIME FRAME: 2014-2018

DATA and INFORMATION Collection

CASE STUDY OUTPUTS: A. 3 CS reports with accompanying data, information and

literature including B. 3 Data Assemblages & Comparative Analysis C. Construction of homeless people and homelessness 3 homelessness data classification genealogies & Comparison D. Academic Papers

Case Study Data Management and Ethics

Power/knowledge

Kitchin’s Data Assemblage

Attributes Elements Systems of

thought

Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models,

ideologies, rationalities, etc.

Forms of

knowledge

Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites,

experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.

Finance Business models, investment, venture capital,

grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.

Political

economy

Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion,

ethical considerations, etc.

Govern-

mentalities /

Legalities

Data standards, file formats, system requirements,

protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual

property regimes, etc.

Materialities &

infrastructures

Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors,

scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.

Practices Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours,

scientific conventions, etc.

Organisations

& institutions

Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers,

retailers, government agencies, universities,

conferences, clubs and societies, committees and

boards, communities of practice, etc.

Subjectivities

& communities

Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts,

scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.

Places Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms,

business parks, etc, and their agglomerations

Marketplace

For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs,

maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations,

etc.

S

yst

em

s of

thought

Q & A

Acknowledgements Programmable City project research is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award

(ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY).