The new Hampshire Hub

Mark BragginsBill Roberts

First: A quick look back

• Protohub - Thinking aloud…prototype…interim

• News, views, articles• Signposting• No data store• Publishing some open data anyway

• Built a strong partnership 20+ members• Published a variety of data sets inc:– First to publish Rights of way– Data packs– Aerial imagery,height &near infrared

• Linking nationally and locally: – “It’s good to talk”

Some successes

Hampshire Hub – a new dawn

Main components

• Website and blog• Data store• Area profiles

Linked Data• "a method of publishing structured data on the Web,

so that it can be interlinked and become more useful."• Label real-world things with a URL that you can look up• Provide both human readable and machine readable

versions of all data• Emphasise the connections and links between different

things• Connect to other people's data• Use standard terms to describe things

What next?• More data: transparency data, aerial

photography, planning applications• Configurable/extended area profiles• Data management tools• Working with data users

• Lots of appetite to innovate with data (open and closed)

• Floodhack / BlueLightCamp • WuDoWuD• IC Tomorrow Connected Cities Challenge – enabling

independent living• Crowd-sourcing landscape change

• Expand / enrich the evidence base

Towards a sustainable “Data Ecosystem”