The document discusses the Open Addresses project, which aims to build a sustainable open database of addresses in the UK as an alternative to addresses currently only available from the private sector. It hypothesizes that closed address files are not well-suited to modern needs and that an open collaborative model could meet expectations of the modern economy while allowing new services and value-added products. The project is funded by the Release of Data Fund and in initial phases will develop a minimum viable product and engage stakeholders toward establishing an operational open addresses service and detailed business plan.
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Open Addresses - MRS
1. MRS Census &
Geodemographics Group
Jeni Tennison - @JeniT
Peter Wells - @peterkwells
2. "The sale of the PAF with the Royal Mail was a
mistake. Public access to public sector data
must never be sold or given away again. This
type of information, like census information
and many other data sets, is very expensive to
collect and collate into useable form, but it
also has huge potential value to the economy
and society as a whole if it is kept as an open,
public good."
Bernard Jenkin, Chair of Public Administration Select Committee
3. “Open data is data that can be freely used,
reused and redistributed by anyone –
subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and share alike.”
Opendefinition.org
4. Open is not equivalent to free
open
data
free
service
5. Hypothesis 1: closed address files are monopoly
information assets, embedded in huge amounts of public
data, but which cannot be reproduced to a usable quality
Hypothesis 2: it is possible to build & maintain a
sustainable open address database better suited to
today's requirements using modern, collaborative
approaches to data management
6. A platform that brings together
data about the places we live,
work and visit.
7. Open Addresses Vision
• Meeting the expectations of the modern
information economy
• Collaboratively maintained to benefit
everyone
• Providing plenty of scope for value-added
products & services that avoid lock-in
8. Modern requirements
• Addresses are not just for posting mail
• Other requirements:
– validation & auto-completion
– geocoding for route finding
– associating people with areas
– classification of addresses for targeting
interventions
– linking datasets together
9. Modern maintenance
• Through collaboration
– professional / expert engagement
– the wider crowd
• Supplemented by
– targeted (funded) activity
• Addresses are well suited for this
11. The Project
• Funded from Release of Data Fund
– administered by Open Data User Group
– agreed by Public Sector Transparency Board
– operating out of Cabinet Office
• Legal feasibility
• Technical feasibility
• Sustainability feasibility
13. What we found
• Legal feasibility
– received legal opinion that validation embeds RM/OS IP
– doing due diligence on key open datasets
• Technical feasibility
– data integration & inference from open data sets
– architecture for service provision including provenance
• Sustainability feasibility
– identified customer needs & possible products
14. Alpha Phase
• October & November
• Building minimum viable product
– inferred addresses from open data
– initial website with one page per address
– data downloads via BitTorrent
• Stakeholder engagement
– talking to prospective providers & users
• Initial business planning
15. Beta Phase
• December to March 2015
• Developing operational service
– providing API for data access
– providing lookup service with corrections
– crowd sourcing addresses from public / businesses
• Stakeholder engagement
– talking to sponsors & customers
• Detailed business planning
16. Unique opportunity
• Green field development
– do not need to be limited by legacy
• You can help this succeed
– supply addresses
– use validation / lookup service
• You can benefit from its success
– reduce costs
– build new products
The cultural shift to open data is evident in addressing too, evidenced by PASC's comments.
It is perfectly possible to provide closed data through a free service. Royal Mail does this for example, for micro companies and charities. But the licence is still closed and restrictive. In fact even companies like Google who could easily afford to pay for access to the data can't use it because of those licence restrictions.
It is also possible to provide open data through a paid-for service. The Valuations Office Agency currently does this for the ratings list, for example. It's also possible to charge for service level agreements that provide certain guarantees when accessing open data, indeed for large companies to feel comfortable using open data you may have to. But the underlying data remains open for anyone to reuse.
