DataPublic Overview

DataPublic is a fully-loaded “Open Gov in-a-box” platform, with many capabilities & features built-in.

Built on Drupal 7 open source content management system (CMS), it comes bundled with over a dozen of custom features and modules that are unique to an Open Gov initiative:

Capabilities

• Fully multilingual navigation & content ideal for engaging with diverse citizen communities
• Mobile-ready design adjusts layout & content dynamically to desktop & mobile browsers
• Modular architecture and “theme” design allows for easy customization of features
• Powerful back-end management with multi-user support, workflows & dashboard
• Bundles an Open Data catalogue & document library for data & information sharing
• Engage citizens via blog, image & video galleries with commenting & social media sharing

Capabilities

DataPublic Features have been designed and built based on best practices and experience from the Open Source & Open Data communities. End-users have the advantage of using a fully-built out Drupal 7 framework with many unique features:

• Services Content
• Documents
• Datasets
• Press Releases
• Video Galleries
• Image Galleries
• Blog Content
• Events Lists & Calendars
• Interactive Maps

Unique Modules:

• oEmbed Thumbnail – With oEmbed Thumbnail you don’t need to upload images or videos. Simply link to them using the Link field and oEmbed will incorporate thumbnails into galleries.
• Working Photo Galleries: Allows photo uploading as well as dynamic resizing, scaling, and cropping.
• DataLab / OGDI Field – This module pulls in Open government data from the Open Data catalogue via the DataLab/OGDI API. It then outputs it to screen in a user-friendly formatted table and map using Bing Maps V7.0 and the jQuery Bing Maps plugin.
• Silverlight Map – This interactive mapping framework pulls in Drupal content into a map with text, photos, and video. It is available as an out-of-browser Windows application and can be used in multiple blocks with different feeds.

Team

DataPublic was created by a passionate team of open gov, open data and open source enthusiasts:

• Colin Calnan |Senior Developer | Raised Eyebrow
• Chris Torgalson, Drupal Developer | Raised Eyebrow
• Matt Reimer, Developer | Raised Eyebrow
• Nik Garkusha | MakeWebNotWar & Open Halton
• Barranger Ridler| RedBit Development
• Mark Arteaga | RedBit Development
• Joey Coleman | OpenHamilton

Contact

Let us know any feedback / suggestions: datapublic [at] openlab.ca

Twitter: #DataPublic