Pauline Riordan, Dublin City Council, Local Authority View & Introduction to Workshop Pauline is a planner in Dublin City Council who has been working in our new Innovation Unit ‘the Studio’, set up to explore ways of working that are new to the city and the council. She has been working over the last year to identify and prepare DCC ‘open data’ for publishing on dublinked

1. Dublinked Planning Workshop
Local Authority Perspective
Pauline Riordan
Planner, Dublin City Council
08/12/11

2. Opening up public data
Government Data: data and
information produced or commissioned
by government or government
controlled entities.*
Not sensitive or private information but
core public data on Planning,
Transport, Water, Environment,
Community facilities etc
~150 datasets
•OSI maps
•NTA transport nodes, bus data 2012
*OpenKnowledgeFoundation(OKF)http://opengovernmentdata.org/what/

3. What we want?
•Use data in different ways
•Better city services & systems
•Build innovation & entrepreneurship
•Dublin region as a test bed for new products, services and apps
‘Prototyped in Dublin’

4. 2781 visits first month
46 countries
Ireland, US, UK, Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy, NL
249 cities
Irish, Bialystok, Kensington

5. Most viewed
Development Plan (Seveso Sites, Zoning, ACAs, Amenties)* >500
Traffic Volumes (Counts, Cameras) >300
Parking (Bays, Meters, Zones & Tarrifs) >200
Planning Apps *polygons >200
Street Furniture (Lighting, Street licences, litter bin survey*) >200
Mapping (3-D Building Polygons & Raster map) * ~170
Noise maps * ~130
Cycle Network * ~100
Community facilities * ~100
Winter Salting Routes (FCC) ~100
Rainfall monitoring ~90
Train Stations (FCC) ~70
River Catchments & Drainage * ~65
Fire & Ambulance Call outs ~60
*contain co-ordinates or spatial maps

6. Data Requests
Planning
Drainage
Water flow (floods)
Water & air quality
Litter
Dublin Bus GPS
Tourism
Property

7. How we respond
Review Feedback New Data
Sample sets
Simplify Themed to
process Workshops updated/live
data
Standardise
output Prioritise
next release ?
regionally

8. How we collect data
Environment Planning Water Transport
Hard Copy Digitised
Text Spatial
Static Dynamic
Silos Pool resources & share results

9. Planning application data
Requests: Daily feeds, Summary stats, Point co-ordinates
Commencement notices, ABP/DOE information
Building Enforcement Appeals
Control
Can we share information to make application process more
efficient?

10. Strategic planning data
Requests: Key dates, derelict buildings
Development Non statutory Consultation
Plan/ Local reports and Councillors and
Area Plans studies public
How do we integrate data to build an evidence base for
decision making and monitoring?

11. Heritage data
Requests: Conservation/Heritage sites
Built Natural
Can we layer information to see the big picture?

12. Environmental Monitoring
How can we use data to speed up
SEA/AA?
Can we use data for ongoing
monitoring? Who updates?

13. Consultation data
Requests: Key dates for news feeds, councillor info
Raw data 1000 online submissions
How can we use this information to communicate better and
to measure progress?

14. Creative Engagement
Tourism Ireland facebook app
Engage playfully with children
& young people
Information layers:
•Tourism
•Heritage
•Public Facilities,
•Demographic
•Transport
•Weather
•Maps
Sim City Farmville

15. Visualisation
via@sethsblog
The Power of Visualisation:"Data is not useful until it becomes
information" ow.ly/726i8 #opendata #dublinked

16. Connected city
Information layers;
Traffic sensors, way finding, buildings, air quality, noise, cycling, road works, complaints…
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17. Themed workshop
Strategic Planning
Planning DevPlan Applications Applications
LAP Building Control
Non statutory Enforcement
Consultation Appeals
SEA /AA
Monitoring
Conservation All of the above
Green
Infrastructure
Environment &
General
Heritage