Tag: opendata

A council might publish open data, but how does it encourage good use of that data?

  • February 6, 2012 at 12:07 am

  • At UK GovCamp recently a bunch of us looked at what an open data platform should look like. Not the technical stuff, but what a council would need to do to make the most of it. One aspect of that is how to encourage interest and trust from people who have ideas for using the [...]

Arguments for open local data

  • June 3, 2010 at 12:01 pm

  • One of the challenges facing proponents of open data is persuading others of its value; particularly persuading the custodians of data that making it publicly available is a valuable thing to do, and is in their interest to do it. Dan Slee (Walsall Council) and Stuart Harrison (Lichfield District Council) and myself have compiled some [...]

Releasing local data: what are the challenges?

  • April 23, 2010 at 7:17 am

  • On Monday I was invited to a Local Public Data Panel workshop to help address the challenge of releasing local data to the public. Local council officers, bloggers and activists were brought together to help ‘generate ideas and understanding about what is needed to drive the local public data initiative at a local level’. The [...]

Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Released

  • July 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm

  • Thanks to Gavin Wray for spotting this. “The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open license for data and databases which includes explicit attribution and share-alike requirements. “This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open data. There are currently very few licenses available suited to data and databases and [...]

Opera Web Standards Curriculum for the UK voluntary sector?

  • August 19, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  • I’m wondering if there’s any scope in voluntary sector bodies collaborating to deliver Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum (or a version of it) within the sector.