This afternoon Emma Mulqueeny asked on twitter if anyone had any ideas about fun, exciting datasets to inspire kids new to Open Data hacking. I asked whether she was interested in downloadable datasets or just APIs, or both. The answer was both. So below you'll find a few suggestions from me about datasets that kids … Continue reading Open Data for (Big) Kids?
Category: The Commons
Layered Data: A Paper & Some Commentary
Two years ago I wrote a short paper about "layering" data but for various reasons never got round to putting it online. The paper tried to capture some of my thinking at the time about the opportunities and approaches for publishing and aggregating data on the web. I've finally got around to uploading it and … Continue reading Layered Data: A Paper & Some Commentary
The Open Data Revolution
This post was originally published as an article for The Kernel. Open data is now mainstream. Spurred on by the US and UK governments vying over who could be the most open, there are now open data activities in many regions around the globe. Under the “Government as Platform” rubric, you can find the public … Continue reading The Open Data Revolution
Rights Statements on the Web of Data
This is a write-up of my contribution to the Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the web workshop at ISWC 2009 in October 2009. It was later published in Nodalitied magazine Issue 9. Why do we publish open data? It’s to allow other people to reuse it; to take it and do creative and … Continue reading Rights Statements on the Web of Data
DataIncubator: What Is It and What’s In It?
This article first appeared in Talis Nodalities magazine issue 8. The Linking Open Data project has had a huge amount of success in bootstrapping the burgeoning Linked Data cloud. There’s now a definite sense of momentum behind the project, and a growing number of organisations are now seriously investigating how their data could further enrich … Continue reading DataIncubator: What Is It and What’s In It?
Enabling the Linked Data Ecosystem
This post was originally published in the Talis "Nodalities" blog and in "Nodalities" magazine issue 5. he Linked Data web might usefully be viewed as an incremental evolution beyond Web 2.0. Instead of disconnected silos of data accessible only through disconnected custom APIs, we have datasets that are deeply connected to one another using simple … Continue reading Enabling the Linked Data Ecosystem
Who will write our electronic history?
This post was originally published as an article on the "Write The Web" blog. Ironically its no longer on the site, but there is a copy in the Wayback Machine. A major branch of current historical research involves collating biographical material on important figures of public interest in a particular period. Now imagine you're an … Continue reading Who will write our electronic history?
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