{"id":88,"date":"2011-05-27T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T09:08:45","slug":"oooo-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/05\/27\/oooo-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Oooo, data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/05\/27\/oooo-data\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday I gave a well-recieved talk to the university &#8216;Digital Economy&#8217; research group (a virutal group containing people from all over the university).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had the fun problem of lots of people getting in touch with ideas! For the next couple of months I still can&#8217;t put my full focus on the Open Data, but here&#8217;s some of the interesting things going on behind the scenes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilities \/ Equipment dataset to describe our cool toys. I&#8217;ve got people interesting in contributing to this from all over the university. You can see a <a href=\"http:\/\/data.southampton.ac.uk\/work\/facilities.php\">preview<\/a> here. The idea is to help the left hand know what resources the right hand has, and who&#8217;s allowed to use them. I&#8217;ve had provisional interest in this from medical imaging, the high voltage lab, the nano cleanrooms, archaeology, civil engineering and chemistry.<\/li>\n<li>Disabled Go reports &#8211; someone pointed me at this site which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabledgo.com\/en\/org\/university-of-southampton\">detailed reports on disabled access for 98 of our buildngs<\/a>. Most of the data is too detailed to map into RDF, but what I was hoping to do is (1) just provide a link to the reports for each building from our data and \/building\/ pages. That alone gets far more value out of it and maybe (2) pull out the headline data, eg &#8220;has disabled loo&#8221;, &#8220;allows guidedogs&#8221;. We&#8217;ve been in touch with them and it sounds like they are pretty postitive about the idea. I still need their permission to provide that information under OGL or another open license.<\/li>\n<li>Catering have updated all the menus to include coffee &amp; other hot drinks (it was missing before), after noticing the the opendatamap didn&#8217;t have any results for searching for &#8216;coffee&#8217; (the horror). Problem is, the menu says &#8220;Filter (Large)&#8221; now so still no match for coffee! We&#8217;ll either rename it to &#8220;Filter Coffee (Large)&#8221; or consider adding a &#8220;Hidden Labels&#8221; field to help searches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got asked what the success criteria for the Open Data project was. This is very difficult to define but for me it will be when the open-data-service is so much part of business-as-usual that people on longer want an enthusiastic hacker running it! I&#8217;m looking forward to talking about the good &#8216;ole days when open data was a new frontier and nobody even had an ontology for coffee types or bus timetables yet.<\/p>\n<p>The Open Data is starting to get put to use to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People are using the bus times pages (I need to make the interface better, I know!)<\/li>\n<li>Our upcoming campus mobile phone app will use some of the location data<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been asked how the service could aid with student induction&#8211; eg. help people find what&#8217;s available, and where it is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other thing ticking along is getting live hookups to databases. Right now it&#8217;s all done with one-off dumps, we want to be showing the living data. The dump-and-email approach is fine for getting started but now it&#8217;s time to do the far less glamorous job of making the back-end more automated. I&#8217;m still working on getting energy use data per building, and I&#8217;ve a lead on recycling data!<\/p>\n<p>Good times.<\/p>\n<p>One final thing, you may notice that the <a href=\"http:\/\/opendatamap.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/\">Open Data Map<\/a> is now not quite as pretty, there&#8217;s a good reason for this. We noticed that we may not own data traced using the Google Maps, so Colin has re-created all the data from the ordnance survey instead.\u00a0 There is slightly less detail, but the functionality is all still there.<\/p>\n<p>The slides from my talk are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edshare.soton.ac.uk\/7239\/\">available on EdShare<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never uploaded to EdShare before &#8212; they&#8217;ve done a really great job at making a streamlined submit process. It&#8217;s far better than anything I&#8217;ve used in EPrints before, and I say this as the person who designed the EPrints 3.0 submit workflow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet On Wednesday I gave a well-recieved talk to the university &#8216;Digital Economy&#8217; research group (a virutal group containing people from all over the university). Yesterday I had the fun problem of lots of people getting in touch with ideas! 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