Following the publication of their report on data governance in the 21st century, the Royal Society are running a number of workshops to explore data governance in different sectors. In October 2019 year they ran one exploring data governance in the auto insurance sector. Last week they held a workshop looking at data governance in … Continue reading What is collaborative maintenance of data? A short talk at the Royal Society
Category: Open Data
How can publishing more data increase the value of existing data?
There's lots to love about the "Value of Data" report. Like the fantastic infographic on page 9. I'll wait while you go and check it out. Great, isn't it? My favourite part about the paper is that it's taught me a few terms that economists use, but which I hadn't heard before. Like "Incomplete contracts" … Continue reading How can publishing more data increase the value of existing data?
Licence Friction: A Tale of Two Datasets
For years now at the Open Data Institute we’ve been working to increase access to data, to create a range of social and economic benefits across a range of sectors. While the details change across projects one of the more consistent aspects of our work and guidance has been to support data stewards in making … Continue reading Licence Friction: A Tale of Two Datasets
[Paper review] Open data for electricity modeling: Legal aspects
This blog post is a quick review and notes relating to a research paper called: Open data for electronic modeling: Legal aspects. It's part of my new research notebook to help me collect and share notes on research papers and reports. Brief summary The paper reviews the legal status of publicly available energy data (and … Continue reading [Paper review] Open data for electricity modeling: Legal aspects
How do data publishing choices shape data ecosystems?
This is the latest in a series of posts in which I explore some basic questions about data. In our work at the ODI we have often been asked for advice about how best to publish data. When giving trying to give helpful advice, one thing I'm always mindful of is how the decisions about … Continue reading How do data publishing choices shape data ecosystems?
The words we use for data
I've been on leave this week so, amongst the gardening and relaxing I've had a bit of head space to think. One of the things I've been thinking about is the words we choose to use when talking about data. It was Dan's recent blog post that originally triggered it. But I was reminded of … Continue reading The words we use for data
How can we describe different types of dataset? Ten dataset archetypes
As a community, when we are discussing recommendations and best practices for how data should be published and governed, there is a natural tendency for people to focus on the types of data they are most familiar with working with. This leads to suggestions that every dataset should have an API, for example. Or that … Continue reading How can we describe different types of dataset? Ten dataset archetypes
Talk: Tabular data on the web
This is a rough transcript of a talk I recently gave at a workshop on Linked Open Statistical Data. You can view the slides from the talk here. I'm sharing my notes for the talk here, with a bit of light editing. At the Open Data Institute our mission is to work with companies and … Continue reading Talk: Tabular data on the web
Observations on the web
Eight years ago I was invited to a workshop. The Office for National Statistics were gathering together people from the statistics and linked data communities to talk about publishing statistics on the web. At the time there was lots of ongoing discussion within and between the two communities around this topic. With a particular emphasis … Continue reading Observations on the web
When are open (geospatial) identifiers useful?
In a meeting today, I was discussing how and when open geospatial identifiers are useful. I thought this might make a good topic for a blog post in my continuing series of questions about data. So here goes. An identifier provides an unambiguous reference for something about which we want to collect and publish data. … Continue reading When are open (geospatial) identifiers useful?
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