09.09.2011
As first city in Germany, Berlin opens an Open Data Portal at http://daten.berlin.de. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker from Fraunhofer FOKUS and Dr. Wolfgang Both from the Senate for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Berlin.de worked for several months on the implementation of a portal for Berlin. On September 14th, 2011 the portal will officially be opend in a press conference, held by Senator Harald Wolf from the Senate for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues, Prof. Dr.Ina Schieferdecker and Prof. Rockmann from AfS. The portal allows to see and process non-relevant to security data of administration and enterprises.
In 2010, Fraunhofer FOKUS elaborated in cooperation with the Senate a preliminary study on the state of public data in Berlin. In fact, Berlin offers relatively array urban data, but most of the information are static and don’t accept further processing. In the preliminary study FOKUS also identified the concepts, the architecture and available data sets for a “City Data Cloud”. Such a city data cloud would offer public, commercial and private data sets in machine-processable formats, provide tooling to search, filter, transform and visualize them, and selected applications for advanced services. Based on this preliminary study were defined six basic principles with the Berlin Open Data Agenda http://berlin.opendataday.de/agenda/ for Open Data in Berlin, which create the basis for the Berlin Open Data Portal.
