"If Toronto opened up its data, any number of wonderful things could happen. That was the promise from open data activists --. After much pressure and a NOW cover story on the subject, Toronto opened up some data. So now, where are all those wonderful things that were promised? David Eaves, Canada's open government advocate, has a few ideas why a movement with an impressive wingspan has yet to fly."

"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."

"Besides the fact that we include data from multiple branches of government, there are a few great reasons why the National Data Catalog is a great resource for government data. Most importantly, the system has its own built in documentation system powered by our community. This will help make government data more useful by making it so we don't all have to learn the nuance of a particular dataset individually. Now those resources can be shared."

"The National Data Catalog (NDC) is an open source catalog for government data sets and APIs. Our goal is to have it encompass all data released by or about governments in the United States. This includes federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The NDC will harness the community of users interested in open government data."

"The report presented various roles for e-government in addressing the ongoing world financial and economic crisis. The public trust that is gained through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of government data based on open standards. The ability of e-government to handle speed and complexity can also underpin regulatory reform. While technology is no substitute for good policy, it may give citizens the power to question the actions of regulators and bring systemic issues to the fore."

"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."

""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.""

"John Mark Ockerbloom. "Open records, open possibilities" ALA Midwinter Meeting. Denver, CO. Jan. 2009. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_mark_ockerbloom/10 "

Hackfest 2010

"Julkisen tiedon saatavuus -työryhmä valmistelee julkisen informaation saatavuuden edistämistä."

"Julkisesti tuotetut ja rahoitetut tietoaineistot muodostavat merkittävän kansallisen resurssin, joka kuitenkin tällä hetkellä on vajavaisesti käytettävissä. Laaja ja helppo pääsy tietoaineistoihin ja niitä hyödyntäviin sähköisiin palveluihin kasvattaa tutkimus- ja innovaatiotoiminnan tehokkuutta, mahdollistaa uusia löytöjä sekä sallii tietoaineistojen käytön ennen arvaamattomin tavoin ja yhä uusissa yhteyksissä, raportissa todetaan. "

"OM:lla hanke sähköisen demokratian edistämisestä (SADe-ohjelma, http://bit.ly/cRUPhX ), tähän liittyy myös datan avaamista, kansalaisten osallistumisen tukemista (voimaannuttaminen?) ja osallistumisympäristön rakentaminen. Suurempia suunnitelmia avoimuudelle siis on, mutta niiden tähtäin on vuosien päässä."

"Rewired State runs hackdays to let developers show government what is possible and government to show developers what is needed."

"Digital material can be easily reproduced at no cost. But this potential is often not realised, because the vast majority of archaeological information is not shared. Researchers and research groups usually restrict access to their data to a small group of people. In other words, data sharing is not so widespread among archaeologists as one might wish, and dissemination of research is still mostly based on traditional pre-digital means like journal articles, books and the like."

"FROM antiquity to modern times, the nation has always been a product of information management. The ability to impose taxes, promulgate laws, count citizens and raise an army lies at the heart of statehood. Yet something new is afoot. These days democratic openness means more than that citizens can vote at regular intervals in free and fair elections. They also expect to have access to government data."

"In this paper; we discuss the provision of bibliographic data as an extension of the open source concept. Our particular concern is the sustainability of such projects. We describe the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) project; probably the largest 'open source' bibliographic database; and show that open source bibliographic data collection is sustainable."

"Purpose:\n# Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open bibliographic data\n# Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition).\n# Act as a hub for the development and maintenance of low cost, community driven projects related to open bibliographic data."

"The strategy seeks to emphasise activities designed to bring benefits to the education sector in the short-term, while at the same time maintaining investment in those projects with mid- and long-term benefits: in particular, programmes or services that help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of universities and colleges, to reduce costs in the short-term, and to enhance the competitiveness of education and research and the economy." Joint Information Systems Committeen (JISC) strategiassa sitoudutaan avoimuuteen eri osa-alueilla, mm. avoin lähdekoodi, avoimet standardit, avoin data.

"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."

"An increasing number of peer-reviewed journals and research funding agencies require authors to make available the raw, unprocessed data supporting the findings reported in their research articles --. -- But there is little practical guidance available on how data should be shared, particularly in clinical research where sharing information about individuals without their consent presents risks to privacy - both from a legal and ethical perspective."