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"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"

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.

"To help governments open and share their data, the W3C eGov Interest Group has developed the following guidelines. These straightforward steps emphasize standards and methodologies to encourage publication of government data, allowing the public to use this data in new and innovative ways."

"Today PSI reuse happens very, very, very seldom and this produces all kinds of paradoxes and waste: there are PAs that pay private companies for packaged versions of the data that they themselves produced and licensed very cheaply to those companies, citizens that cannot see or must pay to see data they paid for with their taxes, small businesses that sometimes can't even start because they'd need data that should be public and free but aren't."

"This site aims to make some of that information more easily accessible, and to encourage transparency in government. This site is a volunteer, spare-time effort of mine. I built it because I think Parliament's goings-on are important-alternately fascinating, boring, and depressing, but important-and because I believe that public information should be meaningfully public, which today means shareable and computer-readable."

"LODUM takes this approach to the next level by implementing a strategy that aims to improve the transparency and visibility of the university. The comprehensive LODUM approach includes an Open Access strategy for publications as well as publishing any non-sensitive data online following the Linked Data principles. Both the Open Access and Open Data movements are currently gaining a lot of momentum and will shape the future of academic publishing and accessibility of public data. The University of Münster is the first German university to implement an extensive program following these new approaches, which have recently also been published as recommendations for the future development of university libraries by the German research council."

"This productivity map for Google Earth is an example of such an application. It renders the university buildings in 3D - the building height indicates the number of publications written by researchers working in the respective building."

"Tim Davies has published the results of his MSc dissertation research into the impact of open government data. It is suggested reading for those interested in how Open Government Data can strengthen the public sphere. "

"Europeana, the European collection of cultural heritage metadata, has adopted a new data exchange agreement. Under this new agreement, meta-data provided by Europeana network partners is being released under a Creative Commons 0 v1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication."

"We need to organise Government data and software using an agreed set of standards that make our IT more open, cheaper and better connected. Following the outcome of a public consultation on Open Standards: Open Opportunities, we've set out in Open Standards Principles the rules that government bodies must follow when specifying their IT."

"From makerspaces to data wrangling schools to archives, the digital is being remixed by the open - and it is changing society as we know it. New concepts about public information, transparency and the Commons are combining in unprecedented ways, resulting in a breadth of transformative collaborations across the globe."

"OpenMaterials is a research group dedicated to open investigation and experimentation with DIY production methods and uses of materials. In the spirit of the open source software and hardware movements, we hope to promote materials to be researched and developed in a public, collaborative manner. We see materials as an open resource, and wish to establish an open process for exploring and sharing knowledge, techniques and applications related to materials science."

"In my humble opinion, there are two main reasons to be cautious: 1. Contests so far have generated relatively few ideas, most of which either relate to the realm of politics (e.g. how to map funding to politicians to what they do) or to relatively narrow areas, such as crime-related information. I have not yet seen anything extraordinary that would have a significant impact on service levels. 2. Contestants are necessarily either professional programmers, working for a vendor or self employed, or geeks. My contention is neither category is very likely to be hugely representative of the public at large."

"We have updated and expanded upon the Sebastopol list and identified ten principles that provide a lens to evaluate the extent to which government data is open and accessible to the public. The list is not exhaustive, and each principle exists along a continuum of openness. The principles are completeness, primacy, timeliness, ease of physical and electronic access, machine readability, non-discrimination, use of commonly owned standards, licensing, permanence and usage costs. "

"Clearly data release can reduce fraud and curb unnecessary spending. The MPs' expenses scandal has stimulated more interest in this area but there are already websites dedicated to examining how public money is spent. Releasing full financial breakdown of spend can save millions, as a recent case in Canada proved. A $3.2 billion tax evasion fraud was exposed when financial data was made publicly available."

"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."

The National Archives launched a Open Government Licence, which makes it faster and easier to re-use public sector information. The UK Open Government Licence is a key element of the Government's commitment to greater transparency. It provides a single set of terms and conditions for anyone wishing to use or license government information and removes some of the existing barriers to re-use.

"Welcome to the first iteration of the City of Ann Arbor's Data Catalog website. This site is part of our ongoing commitment to enhance citizen participation and local government transparency. We are pleased to make City datasets freely available to the public in machine-readable formats. We expect the Data Catalog site to grow over time as we add additional datasets to the catalog. Your use of the datasets available on this site is governed by the City's Terms of Use. By downloading the data, you are agreeing to these Terms of Use. When creating these datasets the City has been careful to respect privacy and security concerns. "

Taas yksi datakatalogi maailmalta, mitähän teknisiä ratkaisuja näiden tekemisessä käytetään?

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!

"The website will make vast amounts of SETI data available to the public for the first time. It will also publish the SETI Institute's signal-detection algorithm as open source code, inviting brilliant coders and amateur techies to make it even better."