4 May 2010 Making government data and information open and re-usable: a cross-government programme Keitha Booth Future 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 framework oOpen up copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use oApplicable 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

 Over to Hamish to tell you more about it...