Presentation on Bassetlaw District Council's experience with Open Data and the Bassetlaw Open Data site. Presented by Andrew Brammall, Strategic ICT Manager at Bassetlaw District Council, at Really Useful Day: Making use of Open Data for public services on 27 March 2015 in St Albans.

1. Open Data
Bassetlaw’s Journey
www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/opendata
data.bassetlaw.gov.uk

2. Open Data
Bassetlaw’s Journey
Andrew Brammall
Strategic ICT Manager

3. Open Data
Why Did We Embrace it at Bassetlaw?
 Government Data Strategy
 Facilitate changes to Freedom of Information Act
 Inspire Metadata Standards
 Transparency and Accountability
 Make available Data Collected for reuse by Community
 Realisation that communities appetite for data often is not predictable
 Support “Big Data”
 Promote innovation and growth; Locally, Regionally and Nationally:-
 Citizens – Ease of access to information
 Commercial – Innovation of services, products and identify opportunities
 Academic Sector – Access to live data for research and innovation
 Government – Transparency, Accountability and supporting innovation, while reducing resources spent
on facilitating requests
 Maximise the benefits of publically funded data assets
 Form the basis of information element of the Digital by Default Transformation
 Prove Web and Designed for Mobile principles of Digital site

4. Open Data
Evolution of Solution and Culture
 GIS and Business Intelligence Project
 Leverage the investment that had been made in Geographical Information Systems
 Centralisation of Data into “Single Version of the Truth” as a key principle
 Maximise Use Data to Drive Increased Effectiveness and Efficiency
 Challenging all Datasets for applicability for “Open Data”…if not, why not?
 Pilot Authority in Sheffield City Region
 Working with regional data communities to understand demand
 Applied for government funding and considered regional development – commercial solution
too much time consuming and too expensive
 Developed a local solution, using existing resources and facilities

5. Open Data
Bassetlaw Open Data Site

6. Open Data
Post Launch
 High interest from regional, national, and international data communities
 Comment, Suggestions and Demands – new data sets, new formats, positive review
 Continuous development and publication of new data sets
 Continue to embed transparency into all we do and develop the culture of Open Data
 Quickly embraced by organisation as a single publishing platform
 Development of automated publishing facilities
 Scalability of solution within the region

7. Take a test drive…
www.bassetlaw.gov.uk
www.data.bassetlaw.gov.uk

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