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Folketinget’s Open Data Project. by technical project manager Anders Gilbro Nielsen. The purpose. To make the data of Folketinget available through a robust an consistent interface.
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Folketinget’s Open Data Project by technical project manager Anders Gilbro Nielsen
The purpose To make the data of Folketinget available through a robust an consistent interface. Stakeholders shall be able to use the data according to their own needs. Such as web pages, law products and mobile apps instead of crawling the data from the home pages of Folketinget. IT strategic purpose: Creating an interface for future data sharing between systems.
The project • May – October 2013: Analysis and pre study • Building a system independent datamodel • Terms of use • Visit to Riksdagen • Information meetings and workshops with stakeholders • November 2013 – August 2014 • Implementation of data selection • Odata-interface • Adjusting the terms of use • Test phase March to April 2014
The product • A relational database available through a webservice using the Odata interface • Daily version generated for download (start package) • Databrowser for • Browsing the datamodel • Overview of the data model • Examples of Odata requests • Terms of use • Introduction on www.ft.dk
Short demo (if possible) • The data browser • The data model • Simple search • Webservice request
Solution design • Data collected in a common database • Event-based data selection
Stakeholders • Members and political parties • Ministries • Organizations • Media (the press) • Lawyers • Lawproductcompanies • Schools and universities (researchers) • Citizen • Otherparliaments and EU institutions
Inspiration and background • General openness of the Parliament • Externalrequirements • PSI law (EU directiveabout Public Sector Information) • Governmentstrategy • Such as the OpenGovernmentPartnership action plan for Denmark • Excisting services • Law database, Ministry of Justice (Civilstyrelsen) • Other Parliaments • Declaration on Parliamentary Openness • The technical development • Folketinget’s IT architecturestrategy