Long Term Vision

The eventual ecosystem that we’d like to see would include:

1. a variety of government data sources (each located at fixed URLs), some mandated by legislation, others published by various departments and agencies proactively in a quest to help the citizens
2. a central registry of all such data sources, perhaps maintained by the state IT department
3. a variety of third party filters and tools that take state data as input and delivery filtered and reworked data (each located at fixed URLs)
4. a registry of those data sources

One can imagine, for example, a portion of this:

• a majority of New Hampshire towns publish their NIBRS XML files, each at http://<townname>.nh.gov/stats/<year>/nibrs.xml
• the NH Department of Transporation publishes EZ pass information showing when vehicles of various types pass through toll booths

and then

• the ACLU downloads and post processes the crime data and publishes a filtered and unified file, perhaps concentrating on racial aspects of policing, at https://www.aclu-nh.org/stats/<year>/acludata.xml
• the New England Mountain Bike Association downloads and post processes the crime data and publishes new data, perhaps concentrating on bike thefts, at https://www.nemba.org/stats/<year>/bikethefts.xml
• the Motorcycle Safety Foundation downloads both sets of data to create a dashboard that shows that motorcycle crashes happen disproportionately near certain toll booths and publishes it at https://msf-usa.org/<year>/crashdata.xml

and, of course, other entities could download a variety of both original and processed data from various sources.

In time we’d love to see the data move from once-per-year updates to once-per-month, and eventually real-time updates.