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
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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?
Data assets and data products
A lot of the work that we've done at the ODI over the last few years has involved helping organisations to recognise their data assets. Many organisations will have their IT equipment and maybe even their desks and chairs asset tagged. They know who is using them, where they are, and have some kind of … Continue reading Data assets and data products
We CAN get there from here
On Wednesday, as part of the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor announced that the government will be creating a Geospatial Commission "to establish how to open up freely the OS MasterMap data to UK-based small businesses". It will be supported by new funding of £80 million over two years. The Commission will be looking at a … Continue reading We CAN get there from here
The state of open licensing, 2017 edition
Let's talk about open data licensing. Again. Last year I wrote a post, the State of Open Licensing in which I gave a summary of the landscape as I saw it. A few recent developments mean that I think it's worth posting an update. But Leigh, I hear you cry, do people really care about licensing? … Continue reading The state of open licensing, 2017 edition
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