Pavla Brady's (1st deputy mayor of Opava) presentation at Prague Open Data Meetup #7: Linked Open Cities. The event was organised by Otakar Motejl Fund and LOD2 project. More info: bit.ly/open-cities-meetup

1. Open data in Opava
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Pavla Brady
1st deputy mayor of Opava city

2. Open data in Opava?
Why not!
 Opava became a
member of Open Data
Forum under the
Otakar Motejl Fund in
June 2013
 1st municipality in the
Czech Republic that
publically joined „We
are opening data
jointly“

3. What leaded us to open data?
 since last communal
election in 2010 Opava
city is trying to be open
and offer the maximum
amount of information
about the municipality

4. What leaded us to open data?
 periodic meetings of city representatives with
citizens
 video-records of city council meetings on the city
website
 all contracts closed by city published on website
 Open data – is next step in our effort to
the openness

5. What will open data bring
to our citizens?
 Examples from other
countries – data from public
administration:
 valuable data source for
school works of IT students
 data source for IT
companies creating today a
number of mobile
applications

6. What will open data bring
to our citizens?
 for other city citizens:
open data even machine-readable form do
not have direct meaning for people, but
applications using these data can serve
people well

7. What will open data bring
to our citizens?
 Open data brings advantages to the city
itself:
 with help of third parties city can offer
new services for its citizens
 using city data increases its price on data
market

8. What is the situation in Opava?
 We are at the beginning of
the process
 City signed the
Memorandum on
cooperation with Open Data
Forum only in July
 analysis of data has started
– type of data, format, how
they are stored and how
they are presented

9. What is the situation in Opava?
 analysis should show: what data are in
unsuitable formats, how many formats we use
and what needs to be adjusted or unified
 for example: forms on city website are made in
several formats – html, MS Office, OpenOffice,
scanned PDF
 we want to make new forms and some other
documents to be accessible as intelligent PDF
where data can be inputted

10. What is the situation in Opava?
 after analysis we decide what data will be
published as first
 at the end unified process used for
publishing data in the future will be
determined

11. What is the situation in Opava?
 expectations from the participation in the open
data project – creation of manual that clearly
describes direction where we will go
 this document approved by specialist from
Open Data Forum can help to maintain a
continuity of this approach even in case that
city (political) government or head of the given
department of the municipality would change

12. When are the first results
expected?
 citizens could have the first
results of our effort in one
year
 first machine-readable
data sets could be
published earlier (next
spring) to allow interested
people work with them

13. When are the first results
expected?
 all depends on demand of the process
 main are human sources – the municipality has
no employee who could be determined only for
the open data process, everyone work on it next
to their regular work
 the goal is not only to place data somewhere,
but to continue in publishing in the future

14. Will open data process stop in Opava?
 We hope that open data
process will not stop in
our city
 Data of local character can
interest 100 thousand people
of Opava region
 Identical data from different
municipalities but in the same
format can be usefull for up
to 10 milion potential users

15. Will open data process stop in Opava?
 We hope that our experiences can be
applied in other municipalities and public
institutions
 We want to show directions to the other
municipalicities and state institutions up
to the level of Czech government

16. Will open data process stop in Opava?
The strength of the project is
in amount and extent of data

17. Thank you for your attention!
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www.opava-city.cz
pavla.brady@opava-city.cz