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GOVIS – visualising government

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:36 +0000

A collaborative workspace for the visualisation of government structures, functions and datasets.

Currently this uses the Commonwealth Agency data released by the National Archives and the goal is to link this to all the other datasets that have been released.

EasyData

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:53:47 +0000

EasyData is a new user-friendly South Australian website that provides data on sixty social, environmental and economic indicators, allowing comparisons at Local Government and regional levels, or with the whole of State.

This makes EasyData a perfect tool for the staff of local government, regional development bodies, government agencies, and community associations, to substantiate grant writing, regional profiling, strategic planning, program evaluation, and evidence-based policy making.

EasyData is now the single, largest source of web-based information for South Australia’s metropolitan and rural regions. Used in conjunction with SA’s Strategic Plan, EasyData empowers communities to set regional targets and monitor performance against them.

NeoGopher 16 lists and 26 HTTP APIs

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:45:23 +0000

Our submission has two parts:

Part one: 16 MashupAustralia lists in NeoGopher.
NeoGopher is a universa data browser developed in Melbourne, Australia and is designed to allow browsing of an HTTP web based API. NeoGopher is the intersection of linked data and the web. We have created 16 NeoGopher lists, each list presenting a data set from data.australia.gov.au. To see our MashupAustralia lists, download NeoGopher http://www.neogopher.com/downloads.shtml

Part two: 26 HTTP web based APIs.
We have converted CSV and XLS data from data.australia.gov.au into 26 HTTP web based XML APIs. These APIs are accessible by the public and support Xquery access including searching, sorting, paging and return compressed XML.

Stimulating A Sunburnt People

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:02:54 +0000

On 3 Feburary 2009 the Labor Government began implementing its Nation Building Economic Stimulus plan. Our mashup and accompanying textual analysis aggregates data on community infrastructure and rail and road spending at the level of Federal Electoral Divisions.

Users can explore how this spending was allocated by clicking on any area of the map or by changing the point-overlay between all projects and just those valued at over $700,000. The colored overlay shows the number and value of projects in each of Australia’s federal electoral divisions. The intensity of colours represents the level of spending in each area, while the color of the area lets users quickly identify whether the given electorate is currently the seat for a members of the current government party or an opposition party.

eightinsight

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:24:24 +0000

Eightinsight is a collection of data from the ABS, OpenAustralia.org, and data.australia.gov.au.

The data is organised into four sections which give the user the ability to relate the progress of Australia to the federal government for key topics. This gives a simple introduction into how parliament relates to Australia’s progress and performance.

The data is viewable by state as well as national, and in most cases over time. The OpenAustralia.org API is also used to retrieve relevant debates in the senate, linking back to OpenAustralia.org for the full hansard (transcript of parliament).

KML Cruncher

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:21:07 +0000

The KML Cruncher is a web service/web page that converts and generalises ESRI polygon shape files into KML ready for the web. It’s useful for those people who quickly want to move from the ESRI shape file format into KML for web mash ups, without the fuss of obtaining heavy weight GIS systems. For more info, check out this blog: http://mappingexperience.blogspot.com/2009/11/space-time-research-releases-kml.html

Stimulus Explorer

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:18:31 +0000

Stimulus Explorer is a web application designed to help you find the location of projects which are a part of the Australian Government’s economic stimulus package. By entering your address on the maps page you can find out the location and details of projects that are going on or have already been completed in your area. Additionally, the summary page provides a brief statistical overview of stimulus projects throughout Australia.

justRcorner.net

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:09:36 +0000

This is a demonstration site (Newcastle NSW only) that seeks to explore how mobile phones can be used by neighborhoods and communities (in this case by people with disabilities and their carers) to gather local information, build local knowledge and integrate this with traditional statistical (ABS), administrative and planning data within a community data repository.

iNation

Taskforce Secretariat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:37:11 +0000

The Government 2.0 Taskforce has invited Australians to take Government data and use it to create applications, demonstraing better ways of providing information access and the benefits of open source information.

iNation provides quick and easy access to data from a variety of Australian Government Departments. By providing only nationally consistent datasets, all Australians accessing this site can search for and find consistent information on their area. This can then be compared directly with any other Australian region.

Data has been provided as an overlay either for Google Earth or Google Maps. The data can also be directly downloaded as a KML for viewing in Google Earth.

Locate Me

Taskforce Secretariat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:42:01 +0000

Locate Me is an interactive online tool to provide detailed information that is graphically and statistically represented highlighting services and demographic data for your local area. In using Locate Me, you have the ability to specify an address or suburb, select and area of interest and detail the demographic profile of the area. With Locate Me, the ability to profile and list the services for any area of Australia can greatly increase the planning and interaction of citizens with local government in the overall well-being for the community.