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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. "

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"a project by the Open Library Society, supported by the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation. We improve the access to and the use of freely available scholarly metadata. Most of the records discussed here are already used in the Society's AuthorClaim service. We are making the records available here for others to use them. The idea is to build over time a large freely available dataset for academic performance evaluation and data mining. "

"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."

"Hrynaszkiewicz, said, "Increasing online open data availability in formats than can be readily re-used and analyzed by others puts the processing power into journalists' hands; rather than relying on outside specialists such as policy makers to provide insights, raw data can now be analyzed and interpreted in newsrooms. This is the emerging field of data-driven journalism, in which journalists gather, analyze and visualize 'big' data and combine it with compelling, credible storytelling. "Ensuring open data can be readily used by others adds real value to the, occasionally challenging, data sharing-process." "

""Of course we should know how our representatives are representing us, of course we should be able to see what's being done with our tax dollars," Mulley writes on the site. "But, as information and data become increasingly synonymous, making information available isn't enough. To be useful, it has to be usable. It has to be freely available, in a flexible digital format. It has to be open.""

"This research, commissioned by a consortium of funders and NGOs (including the Information Program) under the umbrella of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, seeks to explore the feasibility of applying this approach to open data in relevant middle income and developing countries. Its aim is to identify the strategies used in the US and UK contexts with a view to building a set of criteria to guide the selection of pilot countries, which in turn suggests a template strategy to open government data."

"For society to reap the full benefits from bibliographic endeavours, it is imperative that bibliographic data be made open - that is available for anyone to use and re-use freely for any purpose."

A first step towards freeing London's data\n\nWelcome to the prototype Datastore for London. This is where we'll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority's data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge.\n\nReleasing GLA data is just the beginni

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"The London Datastore has been created by the Greater London Authority (GLA) as a first step towards freeing London's data. We want everyone to be able access the data that the GLA and other public sector organisations hold, and to use that data however they see fit - for free."

"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."

"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."

"We believe it's much better to publish the following five components to provide transparent and auditable disclosure: 1. The raw data 2. The circumstances of its collection 3. The method and assumptions used to process the data (in words and equations) 4. The results of the processing 5. The known limitations on the method and significance of the assumptions"

"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."

"As I wrote in the past, wearing my typical analyst cynical hat, response to these contests has not been overwhelming. Sure we have seen a handful of original ideas, but often far from being ready for prime time, or difficult to sustain in the longer term."

"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. "

"This article reviews the need for Open Data, shows examples of why Open Data are valuable and summarizes some early initiatives in formalizing the right of access to and re-use of scientific data."

"More recently, I've used the same data to make my subjects more consistent and up to date. In this post, I'll describe why I need to do this, and why doing it isn't as hard as I feared that it might be."

"But the Library of Congress (LC) has recently made authoritative subject cataloging data freely available on a new website. There, you can query it through standard interfaces, or simply download it all for analysis. I recently downloaded their full data set (38 MB of zipped RDF), processed it, and used it to build new subject maps for The Online Books Page. The resulting maps are substantially richer than what I had before. My collection is fairly small by the standards of mass digitization- just shy of 40,000 items- but still, the new data, after processing, yielded over 20,000 new subject relationships, and over 600 new notes and explanations, for the subjects represented in the collection."

5 open data apps using open 311 api.