Open Data in Australia - what's up with that?

Published on Sep 18, 2017

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

OPEN DATA IN AUSTRALIA

WHATS UP WITH THAT?

“Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose”

Definition of open data provided by opendefinition.org
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AUSTRALIA'S PUBLIC DATA POLICY STATEMENT

  • At a minimum Australian Government AGENCIES will made data available on or linked through data.gov.au for discoverability and availability;
  • with high quality, easy to use and freely available API access;
  • with high quality, easy to use and freely available API access;
  • with descriptive metadata;
  • using agreed open standards;
  • kept up to date in an automated way; and
  • under a Creative Commons By Attribution licence unless a clear case is made to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for another open licence.
Australian Government's Public Data Policy Statement.

At a minimum Australian Government agencies will made data available:

1. on or linked through data.gov.au for discoverability and availability;
2. in a machine-readable, spatially-enabled format;
3. with high quality, easy to use and freely available API access;
4. with descriptive metadata;
5. using agreed open standards; 6. kept up to date in an automated way; and
7. under a Creative Commons By Attribution licence unless a clear case is made to the
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for another open licence.

It is a large task and we need to support agencies in achieving these goals.

So how do we support agencies to do this?

DATA.GOV.AU

Was first launched back in 2009 at data.australia.gov.au.

It came about as an outcome of the declaration of open government and gov 2 taskforce.

In 2013 we relaunched the site using CKAN.

CKAN is open source data cataloguing software.

It comes with a few additional extras.

Where agencies publish machine readable formats (such as csv) they get

We dded the ability to host and serve spatial data directly from data.gov.au

Back in 2013 the site had around 500 discoverable datasets.

Now there are over 28,000 discoverable datasets listed on data.gov.au.

We will go hands on with data.gov.au a little later on.

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Allan Barger

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