4 May 2010
Making government data and information open and re-usable: a
cross-government programme
Keitha BoothFuture Perfect Conference 2010
Who leads it?
Data and Information Re-use CEs Steering Group• Links to ICT Strategy Group• Links to Ministerial Committee on
Government ICT Open Government Information and
Data Working Group
What is its purpose?
To make non-personal government-held data and information more:• widely available and discoverable• easily usable• compliant with open government data principles within
the NZ legal context; and
To facilitate agencies’ release of the non-personal government-held data and information that people, communities, and businesses want to use and re-use
Programme Outcomes
Project List
First Steps
Agency-centric• Collate mandates and capability• Pilot all-of-government data directory• Develop a common licensing framework
for releasing copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use
• Identify barriers to re-use
Collate mandates and capability
• Understand what mandates oblige, or enable, agencies to make data available for re-use
• Led by National Library of New Zealand
Pilot open data directory
Pilot all-of-government data directory to expose and notify data as it is released
Pilot releasing supporting data when consulting on policy options
Led by Department of Internal Affairs
NZGOAL
• NZ Government Open Access and Licensing frameworkoOpen up copyright works and non-copyright
material for re-useoApplicable to State Services agencies
• Led by SSC and DIA
Barriers to Re-use of Data
First stage was to Review the barriers to the re-use of structured data
Led by Statistics New Zealand
Digital Continuity Projects
Update Policy framework Document metadata standards used
across government Develop competencies in repositories
and datasets management Ensure digital continuity (in dvpt) Address barriers to re-use of
structured and unstructured data
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