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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.

"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." "

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"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. "

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"Poligraft takes in a block of text, parses it for entities like politicians and corporations, and returns a result set representing the political influence contained in that text."

"A utility built on top of Transparency Data, Poligraft takes in a block of text, parses it for entities like politicians and corporations, and returns a result set representing the political influence contained in that text."

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"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. "

"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."

The key issues according Peter Murray-rust: * What is data? * Why should data be open? (and when should it not be?) * Who owns data? * When should data be released? * How and where should data be exposed? * Datamining and textmining. * Reproducibility.

"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."

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.

"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."

"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."

"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."