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Loading the British National Bibliography into an RDF Database

This is the second in a series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4) providing background and tutorial material about the British National Bibliography. The tutorials were written as part of some freelance work I did for the British Library at the end of 2012. The material was used as input to creating the new documentation … Continue reading Loading the British National Bibliography into an RDF Database →

Research: investigation into publishing open election data

Originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original URL: https://theodi.org/blog/election-data-tables A number of people at the ODI have recently been looking at the topic of open election data, asking how election results could be collected, reported and analysed in order to increase transparency and drive democratic engagement. For example the technology team recently developed an … Continue reading Research: investigation into publishing open election data →

Publishing open statistical data

At the request of the ONS, the ODI tech team have recently been exploring some ideas around publishing statistical open data. This blog post shares some of the results of that thinking and you can also explore a proof-of-concept that showcases some of these ideas with real-world data. Obviously, there are plenty of existing best practices for data … Continue reading Publishing open statistical data →

Introducing CSVLint

Originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original URL: https://theodi.org/blog/introducing-csvlint The ODI tech team has recently been building a tool to validate CSV files. While CSV is a very simple format, it is surprisingly easy to create files that are hard for others to use. The tool we've created is called CSVLint and this blog post provides … Continue reading Introducing CSVLint →

CC 4.0 and Open Data

Originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original URL: https://theodi.org/blog/cc-40-and-open-data After a lengthy two year development process the Creative Commons recently announced the publication of their Version 4.0 licences. The new licences include a raft of changes based on lessons learned through application of the Creative Commons licences around the world. The changes include a number that relate … Continue reading CC 4.0 and Open Data →

The Proliferation of Open Government Licences

As part of my work exploring compatibility between open data licences, I recently began looking at licences for government and public sector data. I was a little surprised to discover quite how many different licences and licence variants have been created. UK Open Government Licences The UK Open Government Licence (UK-OGL) is now used to support … Continue reading The Proliferation of Open Government Licences →

Exploring compatibility between data licences

Originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original URL: https://theodi.org/blog/exploring-compatibility-between-data-licences I recently wrote about work underway at the ODI to help improve the machine readability of data licensing information. We've already received some welcome feedback which has resulted in updates to the guides and the Open Data Rights Statement schema. If you've not looked at the material yet then … Continue reading Exploring compatibility between data licences →

Machine Readable Rights Statements

This post was originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original url: https://theodi.org/blog/machine-readable-rights-statementsAs the open data movement continues to mature, discussion is focusing on how the publishing and use of open data can be become more sustainable. This includes making the process of opening up data clear and simple for any organisation.The recent launchof the Open Data … Continue reading Machine Readable Rights Statements →