1. Use of FME Workbench in Edmonton’s
Open Data Catalogue
Bohdan Hrynyshyn
City of Edmonton
IT Business Analyst, Open Data Team
Edmonton, Alberta - April 12, 2013

2. What is Open Data?
Certain data to be freely available for everyone to use and
republish as they wish, without restrictions or control
Rationale
 Data generated or collected by public organizations belong to
taxpayers, and where releasing it will not violate any laws or
rights to privacy
 Component of Open Government
 Building and maintaining relationships between
government and citizens by sharing ideas and information

3. Why Open Data?
Make Local Government More ….
 Open
 Accountable
 Accessible

4. Open Government …..
 Encourage a Constant Exchange of Ideas
Want Government to make better decisions for all of us

5. Openness ……..
 Laws and Decisions Open for Discussion
 Collaboration in policy-making, policy
implementation, and policy enforcement

6. Accessibility ……..
 Budgets may be reviewed by anyone
 Government does not have all the answers – participation
through various communication tools
 Public mayhave necessary knowledge and experience to
deal with issues
 Economic opportunities by turning data into apps, web-sites
or other useful products

7. Accountability ……
 Public Officials are Accountable
 Government meetings are open to everyone
 Civic engagement, stakeholder groups collaboration,
collaborative public management, and dispute resolution
with citizens and stakeholders have answerability

8. Why Open Data Edmonton?
 make accessible, data about Edmonton’s municipal services to Edmonton's
citizens, media, and public
Why Are We Doing This?
 City committed to better manage business information
 Provide easy access to public Data Assets
 Improve accessibility, transparency and accountability for City Of Edmonton data
 Increase engagement of citizens, community organizations and private businesses
in creative community problem solving and development of innovative services,
applications and solutions
 Promote ‘One City’ concept - one location for all city data
 Integrate data from various discrete data-sets to provide more value and
intelligence

9. About Edmonton’s Open Data
The City of Edmonton - dedicated to using technology to make municipal information
more open, transparent and accessible.
History

10. Open Data Principles ……
 1. Complete
 Data not subject to privacy, legislative, security or privilege limitations
 2. Primary
 Data collected at source
 Granularity at lowest level possible
 not in aggregate or modified form
 3. Timely
 Data is current and relevant
 4. Accessible
 to wide range of users
 for many different purposes

11. Open Data Principles ……
 5. Machine processable
 Data structured for automated processing
 6. Non-discriminatory Access
 Data available to anyone, with no requirements
 7. Non-Proprietary Format
 Data available in format no entity has exclusive control
 8. Data license-free
 Data not subject to any copyright, patent, trademark or
regulations

12. Open Data Infrastructure

13. Why Use FME?
 Transform (restructure, reformat, and integrate)
spatial and non-spatial data into proper format
and structure for loading into Socrata’s Open
Data Catalogue
 Add spatial components to non-spatial data so it
can be readily visualized on a map in Socrata’s
Open Data Catalogue

14. How to publish Open Data Cycle
 Choose Data for Release
 Prepare data extract in Open Format (csv, xls,
shp)
 Create Open Data page on Catalogue
 Create Meta Data for dataset
 Make Dataset public

15. FME Transformers
 AttributeKeeper
 AttributeRenamer
 CoordinateExtractor
 NullAttributeReplacer
 Reprojector
 Sorter
 StringConcatenator
 StringSearcher
 Tester

16. Trees
List of all trees owned and maintained by the City of Edmonton
https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees-Species-Map-View-/cggb-hzzm
•extract data from SLIM (Oracle)
• format and filter in FME
• output as csv file

17. City Properties for Sale
List of all City-owned properties for sale
https://data.edmonton.ca/City-Administration/City-of-Edmonton-s-Properties-for-Sale/yutc-c5ju
• extract view data from SLIM (Oracle) and POSSE
• format and filter in FME
• output as csv file

18. City of Edmonton/NAIT Solar Panel Reference System -
Daily Power Production
Daily production of electrical power from solar panels located at NAIT
https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/City-of-Edmonton-NAIT-Solar-Panel-Reference-System/ysgw-us2d
•assemble “scraped” data for each panel
from vendor using FME
• format and consolidate each panel
• output as csv file

19. Portable Signs
List of all licensed portable signs in the City
https://data.edmonton.ca/Sustainable-Development/Temporary-Signs-Map/xt3a-rjpj
•extract data from POSSE Data Warehouse
• format and filter in FME
• output as csv file

20. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Bohdan Hrynyshyn – City of Edmonton, IT Branch
 bohdan.hrynyshyn@edmonton.ca
 opendata@edmonton.ca