In questo mondo di dati, aperti In this world of - open - data Dans ce mondo de données, ouvertes Ambasciata del Canada, 10 luglio 2013

1. OPENDATA AT THE CITY OF FLORENCE
Gianluca Vannuccini
“IT Infrastructure Development” Office
IT Department
July 10th, Rome
http://opendata.comune.fi.it

2. Florence & digital innovationFlorence & digital innovation
13K residents registered to egov services
> 100 egov services
68K online payments (~6M€) in 2012
6 Mobile apps (also mobile gov)
>400 hotspots Public Wifi network
43-points Digital Signage network
Municipality of Florence
379.414 residents (58.892 foreigners) @Jun13
~ 4,000 employees
> 120 offices through the city

3. Once upon a time…
Jan 2011Jan 2011 – Open Data in the Municipality Annual Planning Programme
Oct 2011Oct 2011 – First website launch with 70 datasets & first RDF
February 29th, 2012February 29th, 2012 – OPEN DATA website launched
March 2012March 2012 – Dedicated Open Data & Data aggregation office in strong
cooperation with the Statistics Office

4. Where we are now
Benchmarking Dati.gov.it
441 dataset441 dataset
Luglio 2013

5. Main ingredients
Publishing platform - OpenCMSPublishing platform - OpenCMS
Data qualification - Risorsa DatiData qualification - Risorsa Dati
Linked Data - D2RLinked Data - D2R
Geodata - GeoServer/GeoNetworkGeodata - GeoServer/GeoNetwork
Dataviz - TableauPublicDataviz - TableauPublic
Social -TwitterSocial -Twitter

6. Risorsa Dati
Nighly aggregation and data
qualification of 60 main Gov
databases

7. How a dataset looks like..

8. Why are we in the maturity phase?
Because these:
Hey Gianluca, what about opening this dataset?
I don’t care anymore asking to the other guys this data..just get
it from the OpenData
are more&more frequent from my colleagues!

9. Open Data: the “Unlocked Levels”
 Building an Open Data culture within the Administration
 Building a data management infrastructure and
dedicated team
 Continuous data quality mgmt: endless level!!
Engagement: nownow playing :)
UNLOCKED

10. Open Data – with citizens
not just for developers
Open Data for all
#opendatafirenze
100 app betatester
Voting results data in realtime
Firenze SoundMap
Usecase scenarios

11. 1. opendata.comune.fi.it
2. Get the data I want
3. Have the city in my
hands with a click!
Want to buy it near one
of the world’s most
beatiful running tracks
Looking for
home & being a
runner..

12. Want it to be near a kid
playing area or a bike rental?

13. Would like to avoid
flooded areas..

14. Looking for
a (cheap)
home?

15. Balance Sheet Dataviz

16. Open Data – with students
2 apps developed on our data
(to our knowledge)
(sort of) sentiment analysis on
our social big data
ontologies related to tourism
linked data

17. Open Data – with startups
Dataset of datasets to help
app developers monitoring
our data
Companies winning Apps4Italy
with our data
Companies proposing to buy
some datasets
App showcase

19. The app uses our OpenData
Goes straigth to the Showcase
The app does not use our OpenData
Applies for the Patronage

20. Open Data – together with other Public Bodies
Publiacque
(water mgmt utility)
Autorità di Bacino Arno River
Retwitting datasets
Acting as Open Data Hub
Linked data experiments with BCNF

21. D2R
Prototype ontology
Authors
Street
Archive
Linked Data with
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
Subjects

22. Open Data – going beyond frontiers
ENVIROFI Future Internet EU project used our Trees
dataset to build its prototype
Submitted O/D Projects with other EU cities
Exchanging experiences with
advanced cities in Europe

23. Work in Progress
unstructured data mapped into Open Data & offered as location-aware
Digital contents
management team
Metadata definition
Processing of unstructured data
Mapping into structured data
Location-awareness
User profile management
Delivery over different
channels
Websites
Digital
Signage
App
WiFi captive
portals
Enriched
Open/Linked
Data

24. Data flows & smart city assets
1. Sw platform for
events mgmt
3. REST
dataflow
4. App Firenze Up! by Comune
5. Cached on Open Data
6. on Digital Signage as ticker txt
2. Website (eventi.comune.fi.it)
Events
7. To other tourism portals

25. Wish List for Open Data
A real estate using them for
its business decisions
My daughter’s teacher
using them for monthly
school journal
N startups/year using open
data as a mean to develop
their ideas or applications
Citizens finding easily what
they want, depending on
their location

26. Grazie!
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Gianluca VannucciniGianluca Vannuccini
IT DepartmentIT Department
Comune di FirenzeComune di Firenze
g.vannuccini@comune.fi.itg.vannuccini@comune.fi.it