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‘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.2 days 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 ...2 days ago -
World Bank Open API Data: Now in Google Search Results
The Agile Approach blogs —
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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 ...3 days 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 ...4 days 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 ...4 days ago -
Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2010: Call for Proposals
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
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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 ...4 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...1 week ago -
θαλασσα θαλασσα
open... —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance - Part II
Science in the open —
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This is the second of two posts discussing the talk I gave at the Science 2.0 Symposium organized by Greg Wilson in Toronto in July. As I described in the last post Jon Udell pulled out the two key points from my talk and tweeted them. The first suggested some ideas about what the limiting unit of science, or ...1 week ago -
New Linking Open Data group on CKAN
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
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Our Open Data and Semantic Web workshop is coming up next Friday 13th November in London, kindly sponsored by Talis . In preparation for the workshop, we have started a Linking Open Data group on CKAN , our open-source registry of open data, based on the new group feature we announced last week . We ...1 week ago -
Slides from Open Data Session at ISWC 2009
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
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The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Jordan Hatcher recently co-led a workshop on Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference . He was joined by Leigh Dodds and Tom Heath of Talis , and Kaitlin Thaney of Science Commons . You can now see: Jordan’s ...1 week ago -
Lowering Pharma firewalls: Just for Bioinformatics or Chemoinformatics also
Fisheye Perspective —
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Notion of pre-competitive collaboration has been in under experiment steadily for quite sometime now. Notable examples are the Airbus consortium of European aircraft manufacturers, the Sematech consortium of US semiconductor manufacturers, banks working together to launch Visa and Mastercard, our recent moon lust ...1 week ago -
Update on Open Data in Edmonton
MasterMaq's Blog —
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I’m encouraged by the progress that is being made on making open data a reality here in Edmonton. I think the open data sessions at ChangeCamp had an impact, as did Councillor Iveson’s formal inquiry . There’s still a lot of work to do, however! A few brief updates: Just a reminder – we’re using ...1 week ago -
Four-Fifths of U.S. States Still Not Releasing Structured Election Data
techPresident —
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Heres a neat little civic engagement project to get started on tomorrow. Google and the Pew Center on the States have been working for years now on something called the Voting Information Project , aimed a solving one of democracys most annoying information problems: people, often times, dont know where to vote, how ...1 week ago -
Building a city that thinks like the web
DavidCrow.ca —
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Today marks an interesting day in Toronto. Today Toronto joins Washington, D.C. , Vancouver , San Francisco , New York City , Australia , and the US in opening city data to citizens, companies, and the world to improve the quality of life. It begins a great journey to creating a strong new economy in ...1 week ago -
Toronto opens up
Posted Toronto —
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Toronto today launched a new web site aimed at throwing open the nitty gritty details of city operations to the public. While Toronto is already one of the most transparent citys in Canada – publishing all its reports to committee and council ahead of time and putting them on the web – it took a further step ...1 week ago -
Getting developing world data with Android and Open Data Kit
Ars Technica —
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In the developed world, getting real-time data can be a simple matter: simply carry whatever sensor is required, get the data, and then plug into the local network—youre set. Things arent so simple in the developing world, where there may not even be a power source available, much less specialized hardware or a ...1 week ago -
Toronto Innovation Summit on Open Government
eaves.ca —
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Today Im at Toronto City Hall doing a panel on Open Government for the Innovation Showcase . If you are reading this before 10am EST you can catch a webcast of the panel at the above link. Ive pasted in my slides for those who would like to follow along. Down below Ive included a few links that those who are new to ...1 week ago -
Open government and parsable data formats
Infotropism —
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I first became aware of these issues via Raymond Yee , who teaches at UC Berkeley and who I’ve worked with a bit, hosting an Open Govt meetup at Freebase’s office, and going over to speak to his class about Freebase. Anyway, Raymond has blogged on several occasions about the lack of clarity in Recovery.gov ...1 week ago
