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• DRAFT report explores Linked Data potential in UK Universities

  
  Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data — Authority: 402
  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 ...
  12 hours ago

• Big Apps Are Here

  
  MediaShift Idea Lab — Authority: 423
  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 ...
  13 hours ago

• Open Source Trends in Government

  
  Intel Software Network Blogs — Authority: 501
  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 day ago

• Philip (Flip) Kromer talks about InfoChimps and building a data marketplace

  
  Nodalities — Authority: 408
  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.
  2 days ago

• Report of Linked Data Camp Vienna

  
  The Semantic Puzzle — Authority: 399
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Interview with Jordan Hatcher on legal tools for open data

  
  Open Knowledge Foundation Blog — Authority: 458
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Hatcher on Open Data Licensing

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Canada Dragging Its Feet on Open Data Initiatives

  
  Michael Geist Blog — Authority: 679
  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 ...
  4 days 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!
  4 days ago

• City Go Round…and ‘Round and ‘Round

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 505
  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: 657
  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: 420
  [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: 544
  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: 737
  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: 458
  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

• On Google Maps, In Seattle, Talking up Health Canada

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 420
  Exciting and fun news today... Google Maps blog announced that Vancouver has became the first Canadian city to add local experts to the Favorite Places on Google Maps . The site shares some of the favourite places of: Bif Naked ( map ) - rock singer-songwriter, breast-cancer survivor Gordon Campbell ( map ) ...
  1 week ago

• City-Go-Round Launches: Public Transit Apps and the Fight for More Open Civic Data

  
  techPresident blogs — Authority: 132
  Looking for a good transit app? Theres a site for that. The good people at FrontSeat.org , makers of "software for civic life" like WalkScore.com (which promotes car-free living by providing a personalized "walkability" rating for any address) have unveiled their latest project: City-Go-Round . The site is a ...
  1 week ago

• George Anadiotis: “Linked Data brings value by offering an alternative approach to lightweight data integration and mashups.”

  
  The Semantic Puzzle — Authority: 399
  George Anadiotis is an expert on artificial intelligence with academic roots at the Vrije Universiteit , Amsterdam. In February 2009 he took the position as R&D Director at the Greek technology company IMC . I met him in September at I-SEMANTICS 2009 where he and his team contributed to the Triplification ...
  1 week ago

• Vancouver Open Data Hackathon: DTES Cloud

  
  danielmclaren.net - — Authority: 91
  Nearly two dozen people attended the Vancouver Open Data Hackathon today to bump heads and code. After a round of introductions we forgot names but somehow remembered those with common interests for what to do with all the data that the City had made available to us. Vancouvers open data catalogue has mostly ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Open Government Directive is Finally Out. And Its Pretty Good.

  
  techPresident — Authority: 576
  The White House has just released its Open Government Directive, long-awaited by transparency and "government 2.0" advocates, and at first glance, the meat on the bone looks pretty juicy. (Or, if you prefer a vegan metaphor, the sauce on the seitan looks pretty, um, creamy?) Nancys got a sharp and detailed write-up ...
  1 week ago

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