The City of Raleigh has a long history of open, collaborative government by engaging with citizens to provide a high level of customer service. On February 7, 2012, the Raleigh City Council unanimously adopted an Open Source Resolution.This is the first of many steps designed to make it easier to get information and interact with city government. Raleigh is committed to an open source strategy that highlights transparency, collaboration, and improved access to local government information and data.
Over the next few months, city staff will engage with citizen groups, youth development programs, entrepreneurs, and businesses to create an open data policy and begin publishing an open data catalog. The open data policy will be created under the guiding principles of availability and access, reuse and redistribution, and universal participation. The open data catalog will allow access to city data sets in open and standard ways for technical and non-technical users.
This open initiative will be an ongoing citizen partnership offering more resources and data over time. Raleigh is a partner in the open government community and strives to become a worldwide model for an open source city. Raleigh wants to develop opportunities for economic development, commerce, increased investment, and civic engagement.
Open Data
Open data is integral to open government. In the future, Raleigh will publish an open data catalog to increase public access to valuable, standard format data sets managed by the City of Raleigh. Meanwhile, these links provide access to currently available data sets.
Code for Raleigh: Open Data Working Session
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Where: North Carolina Innovation Center 217 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC
Start promptly at 6PM
- Opening Remarks, High Level Goal setting, demo current site = Jason Hare (10 mins)
- Tour of future site and Instructions for each team to organize datasets = Reid Serozi + Jason Hare (5 mins)
Breakout into teams based on the following categories: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Instructions for each Team:
- Each volunteer will need to register an account. Robert Richmond will need to upgrade your permissions to "publisher", so please log your email address. You will receive an email to setup your account.
- Each team will need to become familiar with the datasets that fall in their category.
- If a group has a question, concern, or idea about a specific dataset, please leave a comment using the "Discuss" button.
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Review each individual datasets and update the metadata for each dataset
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Update the "Title" field to match Jason Hare's standard. - Update "Category" field with the designated category
- Update the "tag" field and remove "socrata", remove any other tags
- Verify the "Data Provided By" field is correct
- Verify the "License" field is set to "Public Domain"
- Verify the "Brief Description" field to make sure it's updated.
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- Establish the top five datasets (not views) within each category. The top five datasets will be presented on the category sub page. Log here.