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Contact Information
Gene Newton, Project Manager
IT Planning and Policy Analyst
Phone: 503-378-2663
Wally Rogers, Manager
Oregon E-Government Program
503-378-2973
Sean McSpaden
Oregon Deputy State CIO
503-378-5257
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 Piloting Interactive Access to Oregon's Data
Oregonians want more access to public data collected and stored by Oregon's state and local government agencies. In response, Oregon is piloting the Data.Oregon.gov website to provide Oregonians the ability to view, search, sort, filter and download public data that is of interest to them.
Visitors to Data.Oregon.gov will undoubtedly be interested in accessing data that isn't available on the site at the time of their search. To help remedy this, visitors to Data.Oregon.gov will have the ability to comment on the datasets and, with other participants, build consensus for the addition of new datasets using the online collaboration capabilities.
In the long run, the goal of Data.Oregon.gov is to increase government transparency and encourage public participation and collaboration with Oregon government.
 Pilot Project
The State of Oregon initiated the Data.Oregon.gov Pilot Project on October 15, 2010.
The purpose of the pilot was to launch the Data.Oregon.gov website where citizens and innovators could search for or browse public datasets and interact with those datasets in meaningful ways. The project leveraged a Software as a Service (SaaS) data discovery platform from Socrata, a leader in government data discovery services. The goals of the Data.Oregon.gov site are to:
- Drive engagement with all constituents, including
- Non-technically trained citizens
- Other media organizations
- Analysts
- Scientists and researchers
- Programmers
- Improve the ways in which visitors to the state's website find, download, analyze, visualize and share public datasets
- Offer State of Oregon public data to researchers, analysts, scientists, economists, programmers and journalists in a broad array of machine-readable formats including .xml, .csv, .json and .xls, as well as programmatically via an Application Programming Interface (API)
- Extend its reach and influence beyond its core website by improving the ease with which its datasets can be shared and socialized across popular social media sites and networks, blogs and other websites
- Position and promote the State of Oregon nationally as one of the more transparent practitioners of the Open Government movement
- Provide an easy way for agencies to share their data publically and comprehensively
In addition, the purpose of the pilot was to help define usage needs, technical requirements and cost-drivers associated with providing and maintaining an ongoing data catalog for socializing Oregon data. The State used these metrics and others identified in the pilot to make the decision to continue the Data.Oregon.gov site through a broader Phase II Pilot project that is expected to span six (6) to nine (9) months in duration.
The Data.Oregon.Gov pilot was successfully completed on January 18, 2011.
Through the Phase II Pilot project, the State intends to expand participation to include state and local government agencies and will continue to offer the data discovery services on an ongoing month-to-month basis. This will allow the State to gather additional information for longer-term strategic planning on how to best transition from the pilot project to an operational program.
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 Access to Geospatial Data
In addition, Oregon has been offering the public access to geospatial data since 1995.
Oregon Imagery Explorer (2009 imagery is expected by December 2010)
URL: http://www.oregonexplorer.info/imagery
Thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) and a multi-agency partnership coordinated by the Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office, high resolution color aerial photography is available of the entire state. The imagery, flown in the summer of 2005, can be viewed or downloaded from Oregon Imagery Explorer. This is the first dataset to be made available through the Imagery Framework, a collaborative effort to create a widely available source of basic imagery data that adheres to a common standard and upon which organizations can build by adding their own detailed datasets. The Imagery Framework is helping realize the vision of navigatOR with state-of-the-art accessibility to common data themes that geographic data users need. Older imagery, as well as future acquisitions, will also be available here.
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Oregon Hazards Explorer
URL: http://www.oregonexplorer.info/hazards
The Oregon Hazards Reporter is a Web-based reporting tool that allows users to access Oregon hazards data from multiple state and federal agencies and report on known hazards for specific areas of interest.
The tool includes the ability to visualize and generate reports of known hazards for tax lots, addresses or user-defined areas.
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Oregon Spatial Data Library
URL: http://spatialdata.oregonexplorer.info
A powerful new data-access tool for Oregon researchers, students, public agency staff, private industry and the public at large was launched November 18, 2009, in conjunction with national GIS Day.
The Oregon Spatial Data Library provides easy and convenient ways to find, access and share geospatial data at no cost to the user. Currently, more than 200 datasets can be displayed and downloaded, with more to be added as they become available.
Developed in partnership with Oregon State University Libraries, the Institute for Natural Resources and the Oregon Department of Administrative Services Geospatial Enterprise Office (DAS-GEO), the Oregon Spatial Data Library features access to all statewide "framework" data available for Oregon. These are the datasets that serve as "base data" for a variety of GIS applications that support important research, business and public services.
Framework datasets include administrative boundaries, transportation, land use, ownership, water, hazards and wetlands. Many state and federal agencies have contributed to the collaborative development and continued stewardship of these datasets.
The Oregon Spatial Data Library also ties the Oregon Explorer Web portal to the State of Oregon's NavigatOR initiative.
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URL: http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/EISPD/GEO/alphalist.shtml
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