About data.seattle.gov

The purpose of data.seattle.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine-readable datasets generated by various departments of Seattle City Government. The site was launched under the leadership of Chief Technology Officer, Bill Schrier, one of Government Technology’s 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in 2008 and a Computerworld Premier 100 Leader for 2010.

“Very early on, we understood the power of APIs to simplify access to data for web and mobile applications developers. Certainly data.seattle.gov offers a simple, easy, interactive online experience for Seattle’s residents and others, but where we really want to push the envelope is in API enabling our data. In fact by making our city data easily available via APIs, we widen potential access for residents and businesses and make it possible for them reuse our services in unprecedented ways.” He adds, “We’re just at the beginning of a government transformation enabled by Open Data as a platform. With new, constrained, government budgets, we’re able to leverage a large community of people outside government to make government and the information it collects more accessible to everyone. ”

Bill Schrier, Seattle’s Chief Technology Officer

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Press

A Million Stories in the [redacted] City: How Seattle Handles Open Crime Data
by Nick Judd, Tech President, february 9, 2011

Data Camp Seattle – HearNear Born Here!
by Joe McCarthy, Seattle 24×7, February 20, 2011

Civic developers gather to code for America at data camps
by Alex Howard, GovFresh, February 19, 2011

TechFlash: Q&A with Seattle’s Chief Geek Bill Schrier
by Alyssa Kleven, MyNorthwest.com, March 28, 2011

Seattle Announces Open Data Web Site
by Andy Opsahl, SOURCE, Government Technology, March 1, 2010

Reviews

Since 2009, the Seattle Department of Information Technology has published 101 public data sets in machine-readable formats from the location of bicycle racks to real time 911 fire calls. That’s a number that most cities don’t come close to reaching. More…

 

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