Office for National Statistics - GIS
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From CDs to web services The future of government Ian Coady Office for National Statistics
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At Esri UK Annual Conference 2014 The future of Government - From CDs to web services The importance of geographic information is increasing and demand for data and the ways in which it can be consumed are changing. ONS as an organisation is trying to respond to these changing demands by providing flexibility in the way in which it disseminates data. This is increasingly being done through replacing products with services and a focus on open data, open software and open standards. This presentation sets out the drivers for change and the legislative and cultural context of implementing this. It demonstrates the outputs of a service-based approach and gives examples of how these services are consumed.
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From CDs to web servicesThe future of government
Ian CoadyOffice for National Statistics
“Location is the connective tissue of open data” – Sir Nigel Shadbolt
“Everything happens somewhere” – UK Location Strategy
Previous situation
• Geographic Referencing Infrastructure
• CD/DVD release
• Delivery by post
• Products disseminated across different software
So what did we want to do?
• Deliver our data online
• Migration to web services
• INSPIRE compliance
• Have a hosted solution
• Machine-readable data
• A single authoritative data source
What do you mean the system is
outside the ONS infrastructure?!!
The Perfect Policy Storm
OPEN – Government push towards open data
INSPIRE – Legal mandate for publishing geographic data at the European level
CENSUS – Requirement to publish Census geographic boundaries and other products
END OF THE LINE?......
procurement
information assurance
IT
Policy/infrastructure
finance
So what did we do?
• Where we could we worked around the rules
• ….where we couldn’t work around the rules we challenged them….
• …and where we couldn’t challenge the rules we worked within them.
Triplestore
GIS Server- published products- product maintenance
published products
API API
GIS
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LD Explorer Product Explorer
3rd party application
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Open Geography
ONS WebsiteLinked Data
Case Study
The use of geographic web services to disseminate statistical geography data and meet
the requirements of INSPIRE
The Open Geography Geoportal
The ability to discover data in a number of flexible ways
View and download data or extract metadata
Using view services to visualise boundary sets and extract data as required
Case Study
The use of geographic web services to support the finding and analysis of government statistics
The ONS Data Explorer
Enabling users to understand geographical area boundaries in relation to their location, and us this for selection of relevant datasets
Enabling users to refine data selections by area
Using maps to visualise data and provide context to help understand statistics
In summary…..
Ian CoadyGeography Policy and Research ManagerTel: 01329 447897 E-Mail: [email protected]
@ONSgeography
ANY QUESTIONS???
Callum FosterWeb Data Access Project
Tel: 01329 444030 E-Mail: [email protected]
