Open Data Index 2015
Rob Davidson@bobbledavidson
INDEX.OKFN.ORG
INDEX.OKFN.ORG/PLACE
• Transport Timetables• Government budget (future)• Government spending (past)• Election results• Company register• National map• National statistics• Legislation• Location datasets• Pollutant emissions
• Procurement tenders• Water quality• Health performance• Land ownership• Weather forecast
GLOBAL.CENSUS.OKFN.ORG
Transport Timetable data• National level service
– Regulated by national gov• Time of operating• Time of leaving first station and
arriving last station• Updated at least once/year
• HK Gov has route info but no time• MTR provides first/last train info• Timetable= every 2 mins?• Timetable= bus leaves when full?
• ‘Data does not exist’
BUDGET…?
Planned budget: divided by department and sub-department: sort ofUpdated once a year: hopefully Includes descriptions of budget sections: in PDF & CSV
Criteria Answer Criteria Answer
Exists? Yes! URL budget.gov.hk/2015/eng/estimates1.html
Publisher FSTB Machine readable? Yes… CSV (but also PDF)
Title Data for ‘the Estimates’
Format? CSV
In digital form? Yes! Available in bulk? Yes – not using web form!
Publicly available? Yes! Open License? No – Data.Gov.Hk license
Free? Yes! Timely/up-to-date? Yes
Online? Yes! Comments
20th September 2015
GLOBAL.CENSUS.OKFN.ORG
global.census.okfn.org/tutorial/