Open Data Scoping Workshop

IT Innovation centre – University of Southampton

Gianluca Correndogc@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk

Open Data Scoping Workshop

Environmental Data

• Bathing Water Quality Forecast• Environmental Agency collects and republish

open microbial quality data for bathing locations (e-coli, enterococci)– Point based (sampling station)– Seasonally collected– Policy driven (EU and local)– Linked Data and DB dump

• Societal and economic impact (aquafarming, tourism)

Environmental Data Providers

• Microsoft FetchClimate allows to collect the desired data with the needed granularity (details hidden away…)

• Need to gather the original data sets• MetOffice

– Hours of sunshine

• American National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP– Precipitation rate– Pressure– Temperatures– Cloud coverage– Wind– Cloud coverage

• American National Climatic Data Center – Sea surface temperatures

Derived from satellite images

Bournemouth pier

Open Data cheat sheetDataset Space granularity Time granularity Link

Bathing water quality station based (point) Almost daily during bathing season [1]

Temperature (max/min/average) (UKCP09) grid (50 km) Daily (1960-2011) [2]

Precipitation grid (50 km) Daily (1960-2011) [3]

grid (2.5 degrees) Daily [4]

Sea Surface Temperature and Ice Concentration grid (1/4 degree) Daily (1981-2014) [5]

Daily River Flows station based (point) Daily [6]

Wind grid (1 degree) Daily [7]

Sunshine grid Daily (2009-2012) [8]

Smart Cities

• Local Authority Strategic Planning– Web platform to browse and compare ONS data– Use of geographies boundaries to visualise data

(choropleth) and select regions of interest– Create set of plots and provide downloadable reports

• Smart Transportation – Integration of different data sources (road works,

traffic status, parking space availability, real time bus times)

– Map overlays integrated with a route planner (using openstreetmap data)