City of Madison Data Roadmap

City of Madison
Open
Data
Paul Kronberger,
CIO
Aaron Cohen,
Coordinator
City ofGIS
Madison
December 5, 2012
City of Madison

Open Data City Ordinance

Increase availability of City data to the Public

Enhance transparency and Open Government
Economic Development benefits
Promote external application development

Worked with prior hackathons

Benefits to Citizens

Policies of IT

Individual Agency Decisions

Exceptions per Public Records Law
Most data will be made available
IT will facilitate

Challenges for IT and Agencies

Clean Data
Misinterpretation of Data

Metadata

Currency/Maintenance
Issue of local datasets

City of Madison Data

http://www.cityofmadison.com

City of Madison Data Portal

ArcGIS
Online

ArcGIS Online Open Data

ArcGIS
Online
Open
Data

Selecting data for Open Data

Data that is maintained.

Data with metadata.
High request rate datasets.
Data that is already in a distributable format.

Correctly normalized/denormalized.

Protected Data

Identify and remove secure items.

Consistency across tool and platforms.
Verify results.

Contact Information:
Aaron Cohen, GIS Coordinator
City of Madison Information Technology
210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Room 500
Madison, WI 53703
acohen@cityofmadison.com