Meeting:	Audit and Governance Committee
Meeting date:	17/03/2025
Report of:	Ian Cunningham, Head of Business Intelligence
Portfolio of:	Katie Lomas - Finance, Performance, Major Projects, Human Rights, Equality and Inclusion

Update Report: York Open Data

Subject of Report

1. This report and its annex provide and update on York Open Data which is City of York Council’s Open Data platform, as requested by Members.

Recommendation and Reasons

2. Note the update on York Open data.

Reason: To ensure the Committee is up to date on the Council’s use of the Council’s Open Data platform.

Background

3. York Open Data has been running continuously since 2015 and managed by the Business Intelligence function of City of York Council. The platform is the public facing platform on which CYC publishes hundreds of datasets under the Open Government License (OGL), with data mainly originating from the myriad of systems and processes within the organisation.

4. The platform technologically is based on an industry standard technology for open data, CKAN, and is primarily designed to help meet provide data for residents, businesses and research purposes, meet national transparency requirements, support the reduction in requests for information and FOIs by making data available on regular basis, and exposing data as close to the 5-star quality rating of publically available data. The open data platform is not designed to be a local information system or provide analysis/dashboards type tools.

5. A short presentation of core features, functions and processes of the platform is at Annex A, and members of Audit and Governance will be taken through this at March meeting.

Contact details

For further information please contact the author of this Report.

Author

Name:	Ian Cunningham
Job Title:	Head of Business Intelligence
Service Area:	Business Intelligence
Telephone:	01904 555749
Date:	06/03/2025

Annexes

· Annex A: YOD AandG Presentation March 2025