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Welcome to the Open Government Platform

20th December 2012

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Government of India, National Informatics Centre

U.S. Government, Data.gov

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Agenda

  • What is OGPL?
  • India Implementation
  • Preparing for OGPL v. 1
  • How to get involved

(developers, testers, and others)

  • Looking ahead to OGPL v. 2
  • Discussion

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OGPL History

Develop An Open Source Based Solution for Open Government Platform

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  • Using best practices of India.gov.in and USA Data.gov

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Open Government Platform

  • Support open data initiative of any Institution
  • Publish any kind of dataset in open format
  • Build catalogs of datasets, apps,..
  • Maintain, manage, and provide one point access to catalogs of datasets, apps, …
  • Access/ develop apps/ tools for user-centric visualization of government data
  • Build communities of specific interest
    • Provide dashboard to support monitor open data programme

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Open Data in India

  • National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) was Gazette notified on 17th March 2012
  • NIC
    • To set up Data Portal for Government of India
  • Ministry/Departments
    • Nominate Nodal Officer (as Data Controller)
    • Establish NDSAP cell
    • Contribute 5 high value datasets to begin with
    • Define Negative List…
    • Contribute rest of datasets within a year in schedule Manner
    • Manage their Open Data Programme
  • Data Portal is live at data.gov.in
  • 65 Data Controllers nominated (details at data.gov.in)

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Open Government Initiative

  • Promotes transparency and accountability
  • Participation allows people to contribute ideas
  • Facilitates collaboration and cooperation within government and the public

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Development of OGPL:

A Collaborative Exercise

  • DVC
      • Larger group meetings of India and USA
  • Skype communication
      • Weekly meeting with NIC, India and GSA, USA
  • GitHub repository
      • Code and documents sharing
  • ClockingIT open source project management tool
      • Project management and scheduling

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Open Government Platform

  • OGPL is open source co-developed by India’s National Informatics Centre and US Data.gov Team
  • Coordinating with open data providers, platforms, and communities like W3C, World Bank, CKAN, and open source developers worldwide
  • Public comments and tracker on Github
  • Public mailing list for discussion
  • Join the community!

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OGPL Functionality

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OGPL Release (version 1)

  • Four components
    • Web site
    • Content management system (CMS)
    • Data management system (DMS)
    • Virtual relationship management (VRM)
  • Create open data communities of practice
  • Data conversion API
  • Enhanced user and role management
  • Matrices and usage trends
  • Multiple skins for theming
  • Endorsement option for received suggestions and ideas
  • Enable users to socially share data

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Data.gov.in

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Dataset View

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Dataset Search

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Data Export Formats

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Metrics

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Visualization

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Visualization

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Visualization

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Ghana Open Data Initiative (Data.gov.gh)

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How to Get Involved

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US Open Government Action Plan

  • On 20 September 2011, President Obama announced at the UN General Assembly…
    • Contribute Data.gov as a platform (Government of India and the U.S.)
    • Foster communities on Data.gov Health, Energy, and Law plus new communities in Education, Research and Development, and Public Safety
  • In September 2012, President Obama reported these actions delivered

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OGPL Future Plans

  • Drupal 7 as the CMS platform
  • Enhanced communities framework
    • Integration of custom color themes for communities
    • Consistent and user friendly community URLs
    • Ability to collect site analytics at community level
    • Community specific search capability
    • Integration with FGDC and ISO format geospatial data
    • Improved UI controls for community admins to manage content

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OGPL Future Plans (continued)

  • Events calendar capabilities
  • Streamlined user and role management
  • Integration with CKAN as the data catalog for both geospatial and non-geospatial data
  • OGPL version 2 to be provided as a distribution at Drupal.org

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OGPL: Introducing CKAN

  • OGPL version 2 will integrate with CKAN (ckan.org)
  • A product used internationally for data publishers and users
  • Code available on GitHub:
  • CKAN core: https://github.com/okfn/ckan
  • Geo.data.gov extension: https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-geodatagov
  • Spatial extension: https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial
  • Harvesting extension: https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-harvest

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Data Management System for Publishing

  • Web interface
  • JSON API
  • Harvesting: WAFs, CSW Servers, other catalogs

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Customizable Web Form

  • Unique URLs, clear licensing

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Statistics and Analytics

  • Integrated with Google Analytics for dataset counts, downloads, etc.

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Authorization and Access Control

  • Add and edit permissions for organizations (members and datasets belonging to a publisher) or site-wide administration

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Keyword and Faceted Search (Web Interface and API)

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Dataset page - metadata, download links, previews

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Visualization and Data Explorer

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  • Previews for many types of data: filter, search, and browse
  • Data API for .csv and tabular data
  • Visualisations

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Geo-search - filter by location

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  • Supports WMS previews, INSPIRE, GEMINI 2.1 + more coming

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Language and Multilingualism

CKAN portal interfaces are available in over 18 languages and fully support international characters

 

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OGPL Partners

  • Led by India and the US
  • Implemented in Ghana, India, and US
  • Implementing in Rwanda, Canada, and...
  • Adoption of worldwide standards

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Discussion?

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Post questions in the chat window and then wait to be announced.

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@OGPL

http://ogpl.gov.in/