Case Study: City of Denton achieves usable, machine-readable open data and increased transparency with OpenGov Managed CKAN

How Denton is embracing open data and empowering its citizens to do the same

Denton, Texas, a vibrant city of 114,000 with a $315 million budget and a large student population, depends on public data for civic innovation, business decisions, and academic work. The city struggled with data locked in PDFs and other non-machine-readable formats, which made it hard for residents, developers, and prospective businesses to find, understand, or reuse municipal information.

Denton implemented OpenGov Open Data™ on a Managed CKAN platform, working with OpenGov experts to publish 71 machine-readable datasets across demographics, economics, housing, safety, and projects. The result: easy downloads in multiple formats, stronger support from an open-source community plus vendor-managed maintenance, and improved transparency and civic engagement—enabling students, developers, businesses, and residents to use city data more effectively.

City of Denton

Justin Mercier

Data System Architect