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the approach to open and linked data in the context of the UK Government, the emergence data.gov.uk as part of the previous administration's Making Public Data Public initiative; and the subtle change of emphasis accompanying the new administrations name change to the Transparency Programme.

"This paper takes a pragmatic mixed-methods approach to exploring uses of data from the UK national open government data portal, data.gov.uk, and identifies how the emerging practices of OGD use are developing."

It's a prototype of a service for people moving into a new area. In our exercise we imagined you might receive it after paying your council tax for the first time. It gathers information about your area, such as local services, environmental information and crime statistics

Hauska protosovellus Data.gov.uk datasta, postinumeron perusteella alueellista dataa uutisoiva sanomalehti, joka lähetettäisiin uusille asukkaille.

4iP were at City Hall with Boris and others yesterday for the GLA's announcement about the London Datastore, and he promised to release two hundred public data sets into the wild. With the expected release of Central Government's own open data initiative, data.gov.uk, also at the end of the month, Government and its agencies are at the start of their journey to open up their data. With significant political and developer momentum now behind this 4iP would like to offer its own unique support.

Isoja rahoja luvassa data.gov.uk:n hyödyntäjille!

Tässä olisi mallia avoimen datan hoitamisesta. Aiheesta löytyy keskustelua Qaikusta: http://www.qaiku.com/go/5hvw

Great visualization of the UK transit data, shows how the London area transit tolls increased cycling and decreased cars in the city area when comparing 2001 to 2008

Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy. In pursuit of this goal, this website is a citizen-led effort to promote open data and help share data that has already been liberated.

"Using the success of the iPhone project and the increasing number of good open data examples (e.g. http://data.gov.uk) we were able to kick-off our own open data project to create opendata.warwickshire.gov.uk. The business case and main benefits driving the project are: * Transparency for the public * Enhancing public communications * Improving service delivery and enabling citizens to self-serve * Contributing towards new ways of running public services * Improving external contribution to WCC * Enabling mash-ups of disparate sources of information to create new ways of looking at information * Enabling 3rd sector organisations or individuals to develop applications aggregating data across organisational boundaries * Reducing workload in areas like Freedom of Information (FOI), the Observatory and Public Relations * Reinforcing our efforts to resolve data and information issues"

Hyviä esimerkkejä SPARQL-kyselyiden tekemiseen

Graig Thomler from Australia has collectrion of good ideas on how to develope the data catalogs.