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• Transport Open Data in the Telegraph

  
  cloudsourced — Authority: 109
  I’m talking about data.gov.uk and transport open data in today’s Daily Telegraph: My mother will be pleased. Update : having read the print version, my edited comments do seem overtly critical. The main thrust of my argument was – there are too many new digital channels for gov agencies to support, and ...
  2 days ago

• Sneak peek at data.gov.uk

  
  Quixotic Quisling — Authority: 117
  Are you a coder in the UK? Do you fancy tinkering around with government data for the potential good of the public? Here’s an early Christmas present. Visit data.gov.uk and it will bounce you on to a Google Group. Request to join the group and introduce yourself. You might get access to the developer preview of ...
  3 days ago

• Britain Experiments with a Language-Based Data.gov

  
  techPresident — Authority: 674
  You can teach an old country new tricks, it seems. The United Kingdom is in the final stages of releasing Data.gov.uk , shamelessly modeled off of the Data.gov hub built under the leadership of Vivek Kundra , CIO of this former colony weve got going on this side of the pond. Only the U.K.s portal onto the wide ...
  5 days ago

• And the GovHack winner is...

  
  eGov AU — Authority: 467
  GovHack wrapped up tonight with drinks at CSIROs Discovery centre. Although many of the Govhackers had already departed for their drives and flights back to Sydney, Melbourne and other parts of Australia, around 30 people remained for the award ceremony. At the awards, Tom Coates spoke about how only 20 years ago ...
  2 weeks ago

• A couple more great Govhacks

  
  eGov AU — Authority: 467
  Heres some of the other mashups created at GovHack... Picture Australia location search What is my postcode? (View data by postcode) Who represents me? (System that maps addresses to their representatives and polling booths for reuse in other services) eGov AU Craig Thomlers personal eGovernment ...
  2 weeks ago

• Govhacking in Canberra

  
  eGov AU — Authority: 467
  This afternoon Ive been able to spend a few hours hanging out with a group of talented web developers, designers and programmers at Canberra Uni. Theyve gathered for the Gov 2.0 Taskforce sponsored GovHack event, to develop new mashup applications and services using government data released at data.australia.gov.au ...
  2 weeks ago

• Data geeks hit Canberra for a slumber party

  
  Datarati :: Will Scully-Power :: Data, Analytics & Optimization in the World of Advertising! — Authority: 122
  Nearly 150 web experts and developers will descend on Canberra this weekend for a mass ”geek sleepover”, building applications and mash-ups through the night using government data. The Federal Government is underwriting the event, called GovHack, which organisers claim is a global first. Full Story: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Believable Change: A Reality Check on Online Participation

  
  techPresident — Authority: 674
  Reposted from "Increasing Citizen Engagement in Government," the Fall 2009 newsletter from the Center for Intergovernmental Solutions , an office of the General Services Administration. To be effective, Internet professionals navigate between two dangerous currents: dismissal and utopianism. The challenges of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mapping Recent School Openings and Closures

  
  OUseful.Info, the blog... — Authority: 508
  Just after I put together the pipework for Getting Started with data.gov.uk, Triplr SPARYQL and Yahoo Pipes , I also cut and pasted some of the code from a previous map based mashup to demo how to make a SPARQL call via a pipe that calls on the UK Gov education Linked Data datastore from within a web page, and then ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Linked Data mean an early end for Marc & RDA

  
  Panlibus — Authority: 456
  For the uninitiated, NGC4LIB is a library focused mailing list which has a reputation for often engaging in massive discussions and disagreements around the minutiae of future cataloguing and library focused metadata practices.  They have recently been involved in one of these great debates stimulated by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• panlibus: Will Linked Data mean an early end for Marc & RDA

  
  Planet Cataloging — Authority: 141
  For the uninitiated, NGC4LIB is a library focused mailing list which has a reputation for often engaging in massive discussions and disagreements around the minutiae of future cataloguing and library focused metadata practices.  They have recently been involved in one of these great debates stimulated by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Probing the SPARQL endpoint of data.gov.uk

  
  The Tetherless World Weblog — Authority: 107
  We just ran across the preview SPARQL endpoint for UK’s Data.gov (powered by Talis) following Harry Metcalfe’s blog . In order to understand what data is hosted by the triple store, we use a series of SPARQL queries to probe the content in data.gov. We leverage a web service ...
  3 weeks ago

• Getting Started with data.gov.uk, Triplr SPARYQL and Yahoo Pipes

  
  OUseful.Info, the blog... — Authority: 508
  RDF, SPARQL and the semantic web are too scarey for mortals, right? So here’s a hopefully easier way in for those of us who are put off by the syntactic nightmare that defines the world of formal Linked Data: Yahoo Pipes :-) A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to get one of the developer preview keys for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vancouver’s Open Data

  
  Random Nodes — Authority: 92
  Congratulations to the City of Vancouver on the launch of their Open Data Catalogue . They have launched with what looks like a couple dozen datasets (including orthophotography and other GIS data), with a custom license agreement . This is a great start, and I understand that the folks at Vancouver are working on ...
  8 weeks ago

• White House Moves Towards Cloud Computing

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 113
  The Briefing Room: The BlogStreaming at 1:00 In the CloudTuesday, September 15th, 2009Posted by Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Technology OfficerToday, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation ...
  8 weeks ago

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