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Welcome to the 'Open Data' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Open Data'.
Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Data”
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Of Credibility, Openness and Scientific Tribalism
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Ive steered clear of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) break-in since emotions are still running high, while information content remains low. But aside from the significance (or otherwise) of the emails, one thing is abundantly clear: if the climate data had been released from the beginning, this would really be a ...1 day ago -
On Reproducibility
The OpenScience Project —
Authority: 100
I just got back from a fascinating one-day workshop on “ Data and Code Sharing in Computational Sciences ” that was organized by Victoria Stodden of the Yale Internet Society Project . The workshop had a wide-ranging collection of contributors including representatives of the computational and data-driven ...1 day ago -
Ordnance Survey to open up UK geospatial data
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 485
In a press release earlier this week, it was announced that there will be moves to open up geospatial data produced by the Ordnance Survey: The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a ...5 days ago -
Opening government funded research to improve research, teaching and learning in higher education
Zzzoot —
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The report Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (A Report by the Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development Committee, 2009 ISBN #0-87186-184-7) has some very relevant sections dealing with Open Access and Open Data in the context of ...6 days ago -
Sir Tim: "Public Data is a Public Good"
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The man - er, knight - himself comments on the opening up of the Ordnance Survey, and concludes with these thoughts: Data is beginning to drive the Government’s websites. But without a consistent policy to make it available to others, without the use of open standards and unrestrictive licences for reuse, ...6 days ago -
Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) Attendance Numbers
MasterMaq's Blog —
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The 2009 Canadian Finals Rodeo wrapped up on Sunday, and although attendance was down from previous years, it was still pretty good. I’m always disappointed, however, when the press release or media article comes out and compares attendance only with the previous year, or sometimes with the record year. I’m ...6 days ago -
data.gov.uk and the Talis Platform
Nodalities —
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Earlier this year Gordon Brown appointed Tim Berners-Lee as an advisor to the Cabinet Office to help the government begin the process of opening up its data. This was one part of the initiation of a project to begin opening up UK government data in a similar style to the US. A key part of Berners-Lee’s vision ...6 days ago -
World Bank public data, now in Google search
Blog about Stats —
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From The Official Google Blog : 11/11/2009 11:00:00 AM When we first launched public data on Google.com, we wanted to make statistics easier to find and to encourage debate based on facts rather than intuition. The day after we launched, a friend who worked at the World Bank called me, her voice filled with ...6 days ago -
Defining openness: open source, open data, open APIs, open communities, and more
Infotropism —
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A couple of weeks ago I was in Florida giving a talk on Open Source, Open Data in which I tried to describe what open data was. In preparation for that talk, I went looking for definitions of “open” as it applied to either field, and found myself drawing on the following documents: The four software freedoms ...1 week ago -
Knowledge Shared equals Power Squared
eGov AU —
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Ive written this post based on my comments in response to the post at the Gov 2.0 Taskforce site , If I could start with a blank piece of paper… (part 2) . In that comment I made a point that it is relatively easy for government agencies to technically adopt Gov 2.0 approaches. The technology, legal framework and ...1 week ago -
Transport Open Data in the Telegraph
cloudsourced —
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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 ...1 week ago -
‘Why Linked Data?’ presentation at Defrag Conference
Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data —
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The presentation I just delivered here at Defrag is now on slideshare, in case you want a look.1 week ago -
what would an empowered alberta look like?
daveberta.ca —
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One of my favourite bloggers, David Eaves , has recently published a two - part series addressing a question raised by the Australian Government’s Web 2.0 Taskforce : "...imagine for a moment it was your job to create the guidelines that will help public servants engage online. Although you have the ...1 week ago -
World Bank Open API Data: Now in Google Search Results
The Agile Approach blogs —
Authority: 104
Earlier this year we blogged about the launch of a new Open API, which Phase2 built for The World Bank. The Open API allows third-party developers and organizations to freely query World Banks largest dataset containing world economic and business indicators and create all kinds of interesting mash-ups. Today Google ...1 week ago -
Presentation at the German Conference for Cheminformatics
ChemSpider Blog —
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I have been at the German Conference for Cheminformatics for the past three days. The conference is in Goslar. I twittered the conference using #goslarcheminf and it appears that there was little interest in twittering here…seems like it’s an “American” thing to do. I gave a presentation entitled ...1 week ago -
2009 Edmonton Citizen Satisfaction Survey Results
MasterMaq's Blog —
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The results of the 2009 Citizen Satisfaction Survey are being presented to City Council today. The survey was once again conducted by Banister Research & Consulting Inc. Some quick facts: The total cost of the survey was $13,650. A total of 800 telephone interviews with Edmonton residents aged 18 or older ...2 weeks ago -
Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 485
The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010 Call for Proposals is now open! We would be grateful for help in circulating the call to relevant lists and communities! You can reuse or point to: This blog post Main CFP page Plain text announce (wrapped at 72 characters) Identi.ca post Twitter post Open ...2 weeks ago -
Links: data.govt, temporariness, paywall wait
The Evolving Newsroom —
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Data.govt.nz launches Great to see that the government, via the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has launched data.govt.nz , a website that aims to pull together all manner of non-personal government data in formats suitable for developers to work with. This is what the people at Open.nz.org were pushing for and it ...2 weeks ago -
Liveblogging at California Data Camp, App Contest
Spot Us - "Community Funded Reporting" —
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9.30 am Yey! This a historical day – the first ever California Data Camp will happen here at Citizen Space downtown San Francisco. Also we’ll have an app contest, to build web apps on SF City data. The event is organized by Spot.Us and California Watch, a journalism initiative of Center for Investigative ...2 weeks ago -
θαλασσα θαλασσα
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Since Ive been using the Web for over 15 years, its not often that a site leaves me gob-smacked. But of all the sites Ive seen recently, Marine Traffic is definitely one of the most amazing: This web site is part of an academic, open, community-based project. It is dedicated in collecting and presenting data ...2 weeks ago
