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Opening up European public sector information: two recommendations
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| Last week I participated in the third (and
| sadly final!) conference of Communia
| project, a European thematic network on
| the digital public domain. The theme of
| this conference was University and
| Cyberspace and several of the talks
| articulated a vision in which
| universities, academics, and students play
| a key role in creating, curating and
| promoting the digital commons.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/07/08/opening-up-european-public-sector-information-two-recommendations/
When Open Public Data Isnâtâ?
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| As these examples show, the license under
| which data is originally released can have
| significant consequences on its downstream
| use and commercialisation. The open source
| software community has know this for
| years, of course, which is why
| organisations like GNU have two different
| licenses â GPL, which keeps software open
| by tainting other software that includes
| GPL libraries, and LGPL, which allows
| libraries to be used in closed/proprietary
| code. There is a good argument that by
| combining data from different open sources
| in a particular way valuable results may
| be created, but it should also be
| recognised that work may be expended doing
| this and a financial return may need to be
| generated (so maybe companies shouldnât
| have to open up their aggregated
| datasets?) Just how we balance commercial
| exploitation with ongoing openness and
| access to raw public data is yet to be
| seen.
|
| (The academic research area â which also
| has itâs own open data movement (e.g.
| Panton Principles) â also suggests a
| different sort of tension arising from the
| âpotential valueâ of a data set or
| aggregated data set. For example, research
| groups analysing data in one particular
| way may be loathe to release to others
| because they want to analyse it in
| another, value creating way at a later
| date.)
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http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/07/07/when-open-public-data-isnt/
Update on the local spending data scandalâ the empire strikes back
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| My blog post on Friday about the local
| spending information, the open data that
| isnât, and the agreements that some
| councils seem to have struck with Spikes
| Cavell raised a flurry of tweets, emails,
| and a reassuringly fast response from the
| governmentâs Transparency Board.
|
| It also, Iâm told, generated a huge number
| of emails among the main protagonists â
| local and central government bureaucrats
| and private companies, who spent much of
| Friday and the weekend shoring up their
| position and planning counter attacks
| against those working for open data, and
| thus threatening the status quo.
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http://countculture.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/update-on-the-local-spending-data-scandal-and-some-more-questions/
The internet age will help end the town hall 'non-job'
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| The new Government will be working with
| local government not only to put online
| information on spending, tenders and
| contracts over Â500, but also to publish
| job vacancies online, in an open and
| standardised format, for anyone to use,
| re-publish and 'mash up' without charge.
| There will be no public sector monopoly -
| the jobs data can be used by anyone, from
| commercial recruitment, newspapers to
| pressure groups.
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http://www.communities.gov.uk/newsstories/localgovernment/1631889
The Business of Open Data
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| The following guest post is from Hjalmar
| Gislason, an open data activist, member of
| the Open Knowledge Foundationâs Working
| Group on EU Open Data, and founder of
| structured data start-up, DataMarket.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/07/06/the-business-of-open-data/
The open spending data that isnât
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| Secretary of State for Communities & Local
| Government Eric Pickles followed this up
| with a letter to councils saying, âI donât
| expect everyone to do it right first time,
| but I do expect everyone to do it.â Great.
| Raw Data Now, in the words of Tim-Berners
| Lee.
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| Now, however, with barely the ink dry, the
| reality is looking not just a bit messy, a
| bit of a first attempt (which would be
| fine and understandable given the
| timescale), but Not Open At All.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/07/02/the-open-spending-data-that-isnt/
Recent:
Open Data Definition at OSCON
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| Safe enough to say that the OSD has been
| quite successful in laying out a set of
| criteria for what is, and what is not,
| Open Source. We should adopt a definition
| Open Data, even if it means merely
| endorsing an existing one.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/530
Data is not binary
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| Why open data requires credibility and
| transparency.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/data-is-not-binary.html
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