QUESTION
What responsibilities does Socrata have with the NYC Open Data portal, and what is the duration and cost of their contract?
0:24:13
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Socrata is annually contracted for hosting and maintaining the NYC Open Data portal, with a recent annual cost close to $400,000.
- Socrata has a longstanding annual contract with NYC since 2012 for services related to the Open Data portal.
- The company hosts public data on their cloud platform, ensuring data accessibility via the internet.
- Socrata provides user experience tools and maintains the portal, including the documentation of the API utilized for data interaction.
- The cost of Socrata's services for the recent year is approximately $400,000.
- While Socrata is tasked with the portal's technical maintenance, the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) is responsible for content management and presentation on the portal.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:24:13
What are they were directly responsible for and how long is the contract?
Martha Norrick
0:24:19
I don't maybe we wanna talk about the contract?
Zachary Feder
0:24:21
So it it's an annual contract.
Martha Norrick
0:24:23
Okay.
Zachary Feder
0:24:24
But we have been contracting with them since I think 2012.
0:24:29
So it's a longstanding relationship.
0:24:32
As far as I mean, you could talk more about, like, where where the data is, but when the data is available to the public.
0:24:39
So when you're accessing the data through NYC Open Data, you are going through the the the data gets uploaded to the Internet, and and Tyler, Sakada, whatever you want to call them, is the company that's responsible for hosting at at that point.
Martha Norrick
0:24:54
Oh, okay.
0:24:54
They have a they have an app server that is hosting the data.
0:24:57
The data the data sort of moved from the New York City you know, from New York City to that cloud platform.
0:25:03
Only the public data is on the is on that that cloud platform.
0:25:07
And such Krada maintains the platform.
0:25:10
So all of the sort of, like, you know, user experience tools and things where you can interact open data on the platform.
0:25:16
Those are, you know, Socrata tools, and similarly, also maintain and document the API, which is a way that many people interact with with open datas using the Socrata API.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:25:27
And do you know how much the contract with Socrata is for annually?
Martha Norrick
0:25:33
It is Last year, it was I think about it.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:25:37
You can you can get that to us.
Martha Norrick
0:25:39
Okay.
0:25:39
We'll get back to you.
0:25:40
It's in the hundreds.
0:25:41
It's it's like 300.
0:25:42
$300,000?
Zachary Feder
0:25:44
It's close to $400,000.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:25:45
Oh, okay.
Martha Norrick
0:25:46
$1000.
0:25:47
No.
Zachary Feder
0:25:47
We're not 300.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:25:48
And they're responsible for maintaining the the portal is yesterday.
Martha Norrick
0:25:51
Okay.
0:25:52
Okay.
0:25:52
We we are responsible for the for the content.
0:25:55
So the you know, when you land on the open data portal and it says welcome to open data and it's blue and there's, nicely
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:26:00
lefting all the data.
Martha Norrick
0:26:01
Yes.
0:26:01
That's all of us.
0:26:02
But in terms of, like, the actual like, I'm clicking on this button and something is happening, they've you know, they're designing and maintaining the website.
0:26:08
Great.