1. OPENRALEIGH
January 23, 2013 Information Resource Management Committee

2. OPENRALEIGH
 Open Raleigh: Open data transparency program
 City of Raleigh Departments: What is the impact?
 Open Raleigh: Brand is important for City of Raleigh
 Open Data: Examples of open data on the web
 Open Raleigh: Open data portal timeline

3. OPENRALEIGH
 Open Raleigh is more than open data
 Open data portal
 Raleigh Connected
 Fiber project (NC NGN)
 Why are we doing this?
 The City Council Resolution
 The Mayor and the City Council seek to develop more
transparency for City operations and spending
 Citizen activist groups and entrepreneurs asking for open data
 Open data trending in top ten of municipal initiatives for 2013
(Digital Cities, O’Reilly Media)
Open Raleigh Strategy

4. OPENRALEIGH
 Open data guided by global data standards and a
governance framework
 Open Raleigh governance model
 Open Raleigh standards and principles based on Council
Resolution
 City of Raleigh data strategy and the dispersal of data
defined as open data to all channels through Open
Raleigh
 Open Raleigh brand is garnering national and
international attention
Open Raleigh Strategy

5. OPENRALEIGH
 Visually interesting data sets enhance City of Raleigh brand
 Open Raleigh led to uptick in information requests on open data
initiatives from Cary, Durham and Winston-Salem
 Need a strong brand to be seen as a regional innovator
 Weak open data initiatives are criticized by citizen groups and
often are supplanted by citizen driven open data initiatives
(Open Ireland and the City of Asheville)
 Raleigh seen as first major open data innovator in North Carolina
 Open Raleigh must be seen as truly transparent and
comprehensive to have a strong brand
 Other regional cities are going to become our competitors
(Richmond, Charlotte, Atlanta)
Open Raleigh Brand

6. OPENRALEIGH
 What is required from your department?
 Each department will have a data contact person
 Only data that matches the City of Raleigh open data
definitions will be allowed
 NO data exposing a person’s identity
 NO data that compromises public safety or City operations
 High value open data sets in machine readable format
 Cooperation in building and maintaining a comprehensive data
catalog
City Departments: What is the impact?

7. OPENRALEIGH
 What is the benefit?
 Departments will receive assistance from the Open Raleigh
team
 Departments will reduce burden from Freedom of Information
Act requests
 Departments will be in compliance with the Council resolution
on open data
City Departments: What is the impact?

8. OPENRALEIGH
Open Data Platform
 Socrata powers the Open Raleigh open data portal
 Socrata is our vendor and the product suite can be found
online
 Socrata powers data.gov, The World Bank, the City of Chicago
and many more
 Socrata uses data visualization tools to narrate data sets
 Budget data examples
 Somerville Check Book Explorer (City of Somerville, MA)
 World Bank: Project and Operations (Ghana)
 Crime data examples (City of Chicago)
 American open data city examples
 City of Seattle proposed general fund by department
 City of Baltimore fixed speed cameras
 City of Austin data portal

9. OPENRALEIGH
Project Milestone Estimated Completion
Define resource requirements 12/30/2012
Establish governance model, stakeholders, steering committee
and oversight committee
12/30/2012
Inventory of internal datasets 1/25/2013
Establish dataset catalog 1/25/2013
Develop draft policies that adhere to the global Open Knowledge
Foundation standard for standing up of public sector open data.
1/25/2013
Develop whitepaper on the potential economic impact of Open
data on the Raleigh community
2/17/2013
Test our platform and developing internal processes for assuring
our datasets meet all of the criteria of the Open Knowledge
Foundation
2/19/2013
Deploy Socrata Software as a Service solution 3/15/2013
Open Data Portal Timeline