Open Data
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Open Data”
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Open Data Will Be All the Rage in 2010
Health Content Advisors —
Authority: 112
Despite a dismal year for the media industry, there is one major trend we can all look forward to in 2010: Open Data. Open data is more than a trend; it represents a shift in worldview about using research, business intelligence, and outcomes data. Tim Berners-Lee’s talk at TED in early 2009 promoted the power ...2 days ago -
Open data brings Afghanistans electoral landscape to life
techPresident —
Authority: 603
Here is where the rising trend of open government data starts to get particularly exciting. The well-known and well-established National Democratic Institute (NDI) partnered with the creative firm Development Seed to make use of the data put out by Afghanistans Independent Election Commission on this summers very ...3 days ago -
BC Government’s blog on renewing the Water Act
eaves.ca —
Authority: 421
On Friday the Government of British Columbia announced that it was beginning the process to renew the provinces water act . This is, in of itself, important and good. More interesting however, is that the government has chosen to launch a blog to discuss ideas, prospective changes and generally engage the public ...3 days ago -
DRAFT report explores Linked Data potential in UK Universities
Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data —
Authority: 400
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) here in the UK. Like the BBC, the UK Government and others, they’re interested in the opportunities created by adoption of Linked Data, and will be issuing a call to fund some projects in the space early ...6 days ago -
Big Apps Are Here
MediaShift Idea Lab —
Authority: 422
Ive already voiced my own suspicion that New York Citys Big Apps competition is a deft end-run on an actual open data bill in New York City. Nonetheless, some 85 applications built on the citys currently public data sets are available now to explore and vote on through early January. They include a handful of ...6 days ago -
Open Source Trends in Government
Intel Software Network Blogs —
Authority: 525
Open source usage within the government has been a hot topic recently with the announcement about whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal and the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Guidance on Open Source Software . Input, a research firm focused on government business, announced last week that Cloud ...1 week ago -
Visualizar ‘09
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 462
The project presentations from last month’s Visualizar seminar have now been posted online. This annual event brought together creative teams from a range of disciplines, with the objective of delivering workable presentations using freely available data resources. The theme for 2009 was Public Data - Data In ...1 week ago -
A podcast with Flip Kromer of InfoChimps… and the end of an era
Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data —
Authority: 400
I’ve been following InfoChimps for some time, intrigued by their aspiration to build a marketplace for data that combines the free with the paid. Thanks to the team at Jones-Dilworth (honestly, does Josh have any clients that aren’t interesting?) I managed to get some time with founder Philip (Flip) Kromer ...1 week ago -
Philip (Flip) Kromer talks about InfoChimps and building a data marketplace
Nodalities —
Authority: 406
In my latest podcast I talk with Flip Kromer, co-founder of InfoChimps . We explore the background to InfoChimps, and discuss their aspiration to build a marketplace in which people can contribute and find data – both freely available and commercial.1 week ago -
Report of Linked Data Camp Vienna
The Semantic Puzzle —
Authority: 400
Earlier this month the first ever Linked Data Camp took place in Vienna at the Quartier für Digitale Kunst . This two day event attracted about 35 people to discuss and to jointly work on novel applications for the Web of Data. The first day started off with a keynote by Richard Cyganiak form DERI Galway’s ...1 week ago -
Interview with Jordan Hatcher on legal tools for open data
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 462
The Open Knowledge Foundation ’s Jordan Hatcher was recently interviewed by the Semantic Web Company about Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software : Legal certainty is crucial when it comes to build business around new technologies. The Open ...1 week ago -
Hatcher on Open Data Licensing
Digital Rights - Sound and Fury —
Authority: 123
Here is an interview with Jordan S. Hatcher on “Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software.” The mission of Open Data Commons is to provide legal tools for open data, and we’ve produced two legal tools to date. We’re looking to expand our work to ...1 week ago -
Canada Dragging Its Feet on Open Data Initiatives
Michael Geist Blog —
Authority: 678
Earlier this year, I wrote about the budding momentum behind governments making their data more readily available to the public for reuse. Open data initiatives have generated dozens of commercial and non-commercial websites that add value to the government data. Some make the data more understandable by using ...1 week ago -
Interview on open data licensing now up
opencontentlawyer.com —
Authority: 91
Just a quick note that I did an interview with the Semantic Web Company on open data licensing, which is now up on their site: Jordan S. Hatcher: “ Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software. “ Comments welcome!1 week ago -
City Go Round…and ‘Round and ‘Round
TheCityFix.com —
Authority: 521
FrontSeat, the software company that brought you WalkScore, just released a great service called City-Go-Round. The new site is a clearinghouse of useful online and mobile transit applications across the United States. Transit applications and ...1 week ago -
Flickr4Twitter: Send Photos to Twitter and Flickr
WebWorkerDaily —
Authority: 654
Twitter’s most powerful — and largely unintended — success has been the ecosphere of third-party clients, applications, extensions and plugins that the service has enabled. One of the most ubiquitous extensions is Twitpic , a service that lets users post photos directly from their phones and computers to the ...1 week ago -
Las tres leyes de los datos abiertos
eaves.ca —
Authority: 421
[The following is a Spanish Translation of the three laws of open data ] En los últimos años he estado participando en el movimiento de gobierno abierto. En especial, he estado recomendando para los datos abiertos, el intercambio libre de información que el gobierno colecciona y produce para que la gente pueda ...1 week ago -
Visualising Open Data
open... —
Authority: 545
One of the heartening trends in openness recently has been the increasing, if belated, release of non-personal government data around the world. Even the UK is waking up to the fact that transparency is not just good democracy, but is good economics too, since it can stimulate all kinds of innovation based on mashups ...1 week ago -
Data Nerds Hack NASA (In a Good Way)
Wired Science —
Authority: 750
A bunch of data nerds from inside and outside NASA will gather at a house in Cupertino, California called the Rainbow Mansion this Saturday to hack through the agency’s data jungles. The event isn’t NASA-sponsored. None of the bureaucracy is involved at all. Instead, the event is being coordinated by a small ...1 week ago -
Where Does My Money Go? Prototype Launched
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 462
We’re very pleased to announce the first full release of our Where Does My Money Go? prototype. This is now online at: http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/prototype/ Tom Watson MP , commented on the new release: Where Does My Money Go represents another milestone in the UK’s transparency movement. We ...1 week ago
