The OpenAddresses.io website notes that "Address data is essential infrastructure". Geography underpins so much of the data we collect and is collected about us, making address registers important parts of national data infrastructure. In the UK we've been wrestling with the fact that our address register is not open for many years. After the decision to sell … Continue reading What 3 Words? Jog on mate!
Category: Open Data
Beyond Publishers and Consumers: Some Example Ecosystems
Yesterday I wrote a post suggesting that we should move beyond publishers and consumers and recognise the presence of a wider variety of roles in the open data ecosystem. I suggested a taxonomy of roles as a starting point for discussion. In this post I wanted to explore how we can use that taxonomy to help … Continue reading Beyond Publishers and Consumers: Some Example Ecosystems
Beyond publishers and consumers
In the open data community we tend to focus a lot on Publishers and Consumers. Publishers have the data we want. We must lobby or convince them that publishing the data would be beneficial. And we need to educate them about licensing and how best to publish data. And we get frustrated when they don't … Continue reading Beyond publishers and consumers
First Impressions of Copenhagen’s City Data Exchange
Copenhagen have apparently launched their new City Data Exchange. As this is a subject which is relevant to my interests I thought I'd publish my first impressions of it. The first thing I did was to read the terms of service. And then explore the publishing and consuming options. Current Contents As of today 21st … Continue reading First Impressions of Copenhagen’s City Data Exchange
Dungeons and Dragons and Data
I've run a number of presentations recently introducing teams at various organisations to the Open Data Maturity Model. A number of organisations are starting to apply the model to help them benchmark and improve their open data practice. It's being widely used across Defra here in the UK and ODI Queensland have turned it into … Continue reading Dungeons and Dragons and Data
Scoping the Bristol City Council data platform
Today I attended the Supplier Engagement Session held by Bristol City Council (#databristol). The event consisted of a series of presentations discussing Bristol's recent activities around publishing open data and their plans to procure a new open and shared data platform. The event was attended by a mixture of suppliers and also members of the … Continue reading Scoping the Bristol City Council data platform
On accessibility of data
My third open data "parable". You can read the first and second ones here. With apologies to Borges. . . . In that Empire, the Art of Information attained such Perfection that the data of a single City occupied the entirety of a Spreadsheet, and the datasets of the Empire, the entirety of a Portal. In time, those Unconscionable … Continue reading On accessibility of data
A key difference between open data and open source
In "left-pad and the data commons" I tried to identify some lessons for the open data community based on recent events in the Javascript/NPM world. Open source, open science and open data are all parts of the same endeavor of creating the commons. There's a lot of fertile territory to be explored by looking at how those respective communities are … Continue reading A key difference between open data and open source
left-pad and the data commons
Yesterday, Javascript developers around the world were affected by broken builds and failed installations due to a number of open source packages being removed from the NPM package manager. The significant package was called "left-pad". It's a simple piece of utility code which has become a direct (and indirect) dependency for many, many other packages and software … Continue reading left-pad and the data commons
Digital public institutions for the information commons?
I've been thinking a bit about "the commons" recently. Specifically, the global information commons that is enabled and supported by Creative Commons (CC) licences. This covers an increasingly wide variety of content as you can see in their recent annual review. The review unfortunately doesn't mention data although there's an increasing amount of that published using … Continue reading Digital public institutions for the information commons?
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