1. City of Toronto Open Data
Empowering Citizens and Business

2. What is Open Data?
A brief history and where we are today

3. What is open data?
“The idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.” – Wikipedia “Open Government is about improving the delivery of services, making information more accessible and supporting initiatives that build public trust in government. It is guided by four principles of transparency, participation, accountability, and accessibility and supported by three pillars of Open Data, Open Information, and Open Engagement.” – City of Toronto

4. Open data at the City of Toronto
Created in 2009
Second city in Canada with a program
Joint effort with City Clerks and I&T
Consists of Division, Agencies, Boards and Commissions data

5. City of Toronto open data license
Based on version 1.0 of the Open Government License – Ontario
What you can do
…grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes…
…Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose.
…Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider and, where possible, provide a link to this licence.
What you cannot do
…access to personal information
…Information not accessible under the Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act or the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
...Third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to licence
…The names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider
…Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks
…This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information
“The Information is licensed ‘as is’, and the Information
Provider excludes all representations, warranties,
obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied…”
“The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or
omissions in the Information, and will not under any
circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special,
incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage
caused by its use…”

6. Open data policy Machine Readable Non-discrimination
Datasets will be machine readable so that the public can create applications that can use the data for new services, research, or analysis
Non-discrimination 
Datasets are available to anyone, with no requirement for registration
Preservation of Datasets 
Datasets made available online should remain online, with appropriate version-tracking and archiving over time where applicable and available

7. Open Data usage
255 datasets 1,140 files 1.86 million downloads 55% location information
Top Downloaded
TTC routes and schedules
Heat alerts
Traffic cameras
BodySafe
On-street parking permits
Top Formats
Excel
Shapefile
CSV
XML
JSON
Top Contributors
City Clerks
Social Development
Transportation
City Planning
Parks, Forestry & Recreation

8. Enabling App Development
TOLive
Chillwall
Transit
MapYourProperty
Cubby Spot
Research…

9. Making data open and available
Challenges along the way

10. The process of “opening” data
Solicit data from divisions and ABCs
Evaluate for privacy
Multi level approval
Lite quality check
Load to repositories
Available online
Communicate

11. Open Data challenges Data quality from across multi divisions
Keeping up with a rapidly evolving technical world
Who uses our data
Meeting the needs of a wide range of users
Assessing return on investment (ROI)

12. Open data evolution
What the future holds

13. What is Open Data’s focus
Expanding the audience
Working with range of stakeholders
Academics
Community groups
Government agencies
K-12
Start-ups
Lowering the barrier to entry
Improving data quality
More real-time data
Open Data Charter

16. Community enhanced data
Crowdsource civic issues
Promote community improved datasets
Crowdsource data quality

17. Thank You
Questions?