Free Basic Data in Denmark
Agenda
- About
- The Basic Data Program
- Which Data are Now Free?
- What can We do Now?
- Impacts
- The Future
About
The Basic Data Program?
What is Basic Data?
“...various core information about individuals, businesses, real properties, buildings, addresses, and more.”
"Good Basic Data for Everyone – A Driver for Growth and Efficiency",
The Danish Government / Local Government Denmark, Oct 2012
Basic Data
It is Financing
“...map data, cadastral maps, Central Business Register data, and company data will be financed by the government and released to the public and the private sectors...”
It is Quality Enhancement
- Expansion of data in some datasets/registers
- Phasing out redundant registers
It is Linkability
It is Distribution
It is Coordination
“...to ensure efficient, effective and coordinated development and use of basic data, a cross-institutional basic-data committee is to be established...”
Which Data are Now Free?
All Basic Data*
“...As a general rule, all basic data is to be made freely available to all public authorities, private businesses and individuals.”
Geodata
Company Data
- Data in the Central Business Register is free
- ...but not the (otherwise public) fiscal information.
Address Data
...though they were already free, and being distributed.
What can We do Now?
Easy Access - Geodata
Portal solution that Kartverket uses too.
(Some of) existing webservices also opened
Ready January 2013!
Easy Access - Addresses
Freed years ago
New web- and download-services released in 2013
Access - Company Data
New web- and download-services have been released
...though we had to wait quite a while for them.
Private Business
B2B and B2C now possible without huge data costs
Quickly testing a new idea with real data is now possible
Enrich own Datasets
Mash-Up and Combine
"Big Data"
So what can we do?
Almost anything!Demo time
What Have the Impacts Been?
Seriously High Usage
Other Data Users
Wider Use of Data
Diverse Use of Data
- Real Estate sites
- Graveyard planning software
- MS Flight Simulator plugins
- Health systems
- OpenStreetMap
- Planners and builders
- Amateur historians
- Media
- ...and many more
Public Administration
- Use less time on invoicing
- Avoid licensing doubts giving out data
- Shortens case waiting time
- Do core business
Innovation Process
We now make the product, before they might be thought up in the public administration. We take the risk!
We test a lot of ideas, and we create and sell the added value.
Economic gain
No need to cover over 10M DKK of data to start project.
The free addresses gave a direct gain of 14 mio € / year!
...in just the first and second link
Contributing
I have generally seen more focus on
- Open Source Software
- Opening up data - ODIS
- Contributing/enhancing data
Better Data
Users are interested in good data, and help correct them.They get involved.
Better Insight
Through media, and own curiosity
Frustration
We gave them so much, and now they're angry?
Fear and Doubt
What if my house is flooded? What if our data is wrong?
Misinformation
Data can - and will - be used to show something that is wrong.
The Future?
Consolidation & More Data
More free data - and the datadistributor...
Noone Knows
In 2000 no one would have believed that so many people would pay real money for a special sword in a virtual game
But the future is bright
Thank you for your patience
Gregers Petersen
gregers@septima.dk
+45 9132 6945
www.septima.dk
Sources
- Good Basic Data for Everyone – A Driver for Growth and Efficiency, The Danish Government / KL
- Grunddata – og datafordeleren, Mads Bjørn-Møldrup, Geodatastyrelsen, Kortdage
- Frie data - hvordan er det gået?, Bente Steffensen, Geodatastyrelsen, Kortdage
- Værdien af danske adressedata, Erhvervs- og Byggestyrrelsen
- Insight - By Doublecompile (Own work), CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dr. Julius Axelros - By National Institutes of Health, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Frustrated man - By LaurMG. CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Arkansas Cache River Boat Ramp Kiosk - By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The Caxton Celebration, Public domain, via Wikipedia
- Quality Image - By LadyofHats Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- First Customer - By Ashapple21, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- "Data", Mikkel H. Sørensen and Simon Bentholm, KL7
- "Great Sword of Prides' Fall with Orc", World of Warcraft, Blizzard
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