4 May 2010

Making government data and information open and re-usable: a

cross-government programme

Keitha BoothFuture Perfect Conference 2010

Who leads it?

Data and Information Re-use CEs Steering Group• Links to ICT Strategy Group• Links to Ministerial Committee on

Government ICT Open Government Information and

Data Working Group

What is its purpose?

To make non-personal government-held data and information more:• widely available and discoverable• easily usable• compliant with open government data principles within

the NZ legal context; and

To facilitate agencies’ release of the non-personal government-held data and information that people, communities, and businesses want to use and re-use

Programme Outcomes

Project List

First Steps

Agency-centric• Collate mandates and capability• Pilot all-of-government data directory• Develop a common licensing framework

for releasing copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use

• Identify barriers to re-use

Collate mandates and capability

• Understand what mandates oblige, or enable, agencies to make data available for re-use

• Led by National Library of New Zealand

Pilot open data directory

Pilot all-of-government data directory to expose and notify data as it is released

Pilot releasing supporting data when consulting on policy options

Led by Department of Internal Affairs

NZGOAL

• NZ Government Open Access and Licensing frameworkoOpen up copyright works and non-copyright

material for re-useoApplicable to State Services agencies

• Led by SSC and DIA

Barriers to Re-use of Data

First stage was to Review the barriers to the re-use of structured data

Led by Statistics New Zealand

Digital Continuity Projects

Update Policy framework Document metadata standards used

across government Develop competencies in repositories

and datasets management Ensure digital continuity (in dvpt) Address barriers to re-use of

structured and unstructured data

Over to Hamish to tell you more about it...