🏛️ Government & Public Sector · Data Flow
Government Open Data Sharing
How government departments publish data safely on an open data portal: anonymisation, approval, publishing and APIs for developers.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Personal data is removed before anything is published
- A data officer approves each dataset
- Developers use datasets through downloads and APIs
Prompt used
Data flow for government open data: department systems export datasets to a staging area, an anonymisation step removes personal data and aggregates small counts, a data officer reviews and approves, approved datasets get metadata and a licence and are published to the open data portal (CKAN) with downloadable files and APIs. Developers, researchers and journalists use them, and usage statistics go back to departments.
Mermaid code
flowchart LR D[Department Systems] -->|Raw exports| ST[(Staging Area)] ST --> AN[Anonymise and aggregate] AN -->|Clean dataset| RV[Data Officer Review] RV -->|Rejected, needs fixes| AN RV -->|Approved| MD[Add metadata and licence] MD --> PORTAL[Open Data Portal - CKAN] PORTAL -->|CSV, JSON downloads| USERS[Developers, researchers, journalists] PORTAL -->|REST APIs| USERS PORTAL -->|Usage statistics| D
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