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Johann Höchtl

Open Data Business Models | Jeni's Musings - 0 views

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open data business case tennison

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  • I find business cases for data publishers much more compelling than examples of how open data can be used. For a start, I don’t think it’s possible to predict how open data will be used or what that will mean in terms of economic or societal impact: the wide world into which it’s released is just too complex to know.
  • One argument I’ve heard made about government open data is that releasing it can help organisations avoid the costs of Freedom of Information requests.
  • The reverse of cost avoidance is finding sponsors for open data publication.
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  • The freemium model has been used with some success for web-based services; it might also work for open data.
Judith Schossboeck

Twitter in Congress - Outreach vs. Transparency - 0 views

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socielmedia gov20 twitter

shared by Judith Schossboeck on 03 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Judith Schossboeck on 03 Aug 10
     
    The paper provides some support in favor of Twitter adoption being driven by outreach reasons, rather than the well-popularized transparency motive. Furthermore, outreach considerations factor into a Republican's perceived benefit more than a Democrat's.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? « Gur... - 2 views

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opendata empowering literacy lawsuit

shared by Johann Höchtl on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Efforts to extend access to “data” will perhaps inevitably create a “data divide” parallel to the oft-discussed “digital divide” between those who have access to data which could have significance in their daily lives and those who don’t.
  • What is necessary as well, is that those for whom access is being provided are in a position to actually make use of the now available access
  • open data” empowers those with access to the basic infrastructure and the background knowledge and skills to make use of the data for specific ends.
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  • The newly digitized and openly accessible data allowed the well to do to take the information provided and use that as the basis for instructions to land surveyors and lawyers
  • An “effective use” approach to open data would thus be one that ensured that opportunities and resources for translating this open data into useful outcomes would be available (and adapted) for the widest possible range of users.
  • The key difference here was the attention that was paid by the provider of the information, the CHPR to ensuring that the data could be effectively used without the need for highly skilled (and expensive) professional intermediaries.
Johann Höchtl

Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers - Google Open Source Blog - 0 views

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google refine data sets data.gov.uk opendata

shared by Johann Höchtl on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases.
  • you can read how the Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and data.gov.uk have used it
  • Johann Höchtl on 11 Nov 10
     
    Refine 2.0, a tool for data wranglers
Johann Höchtl

Gov 2.0: The end of a GovFresh era - 0 views

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govfresh failed business model opendata

shared by Johann Höchtl on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • this has been a civic adventure driven by pure patriotic adrenaline
  • passionate, patriotic group of people I’m proud to now call friends
  • Over the past few months, I’ve tried to work on establishing a sustainable business model, but the challenge around building an immediate solid foundation has turned into a case of ‘too little, too late.’
  • Johann Höchtl on 19 Nov 10
     
    GovFresh went awry and failed to establish a business model. Interessante Aussagen: passionate, patriotic aber kein Business Modell. Wo ist der Unterschied zu eg. Open Source? * Open Source "erzeugt" ein Produkt, das in der digitalen Welt "gehandelt" werden kann, eine digitale Plattform ohne digitale Produkte mit EndanwenderInnennutzen hat diese Eigenschaft nicht * Open Source communities sind erfolgreich, wenn sie Probleme in sehr kleine Einheiten brechen können. Damit steht potentiell vielen peers "Mitmachen" offen. Open Data erfordert ein skill level, das von nicht-Technikern schwer aufzubringen sein wird, macht damit jene, die sich nicht beteiligen und "credit" geben, zu Trittbrettfahrern
Parycek

Science and Web 2.0: Talking About Science vs. Doing Science « The Scholarly ... - 0 views

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openaccess science opendata openscience web

shared by Parycek on 19 Mar 10 - Cached
  • There are far too many sessions on journalism and policy, and far too little on doing science . . .
  • “killer app” that integrates social media into the mainstream of science.
  • Tools for doing science are much harder to envision and build.  But these sorts of tools are much more likely to see uptake and use by the community, simply because scientists are more interested in doing science than they are in talking about science.
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  • ScienceBlogs has around 80 regular bloggers. The Nature Network has around 40 blogs that have been updated in the last month (this figure seems to have dropped by 20% since I last checked). David Bradley lists 600-plus “science type” users of Twitter.
  • Parycek on 19 Mar 10
     
    Science Online 2010, the annual meeting for cutting edge users of Web 2.0 technologies in science, was held last month. It filled the science blogosphere with coverage and allowed far-flung colleagues to meet in person.
Parycek

The Social Media Bubble - 1 views

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opengov socialmedia opendata

shared by Parycek on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Call it relationship inflation.
  • Trust
  • Disempowerment
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  • Hate. There's this old trope: the Internet runs on love. Equally, though, it's full of hate: irrational lashing-out at the nearest person, place, or thing that's just a little bit different.
  • Exclusion. Hate happens, at least in part, because of homophily: birds of a feather flock together. The result is that people self-organize into groups of like for like.
  • Value. The ultimate proof's in the pudding. If the "relationships" created on today's Internet were valuable, perhaps people (or advertisers) might pay for the opportunity to enjoy them. Yet, few, if any, do — anywhere, ever.
  • Parycek on 25 Mar 10
     
    Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Johann Höchtl

While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data Sales - 0 views

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privacy SNS myspace data

shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 13 Mar 10
     
    Myspace verkauft Benutzerdaten
Parycek

TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL - 0 views

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shared by Parycek on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • This TinyURL may have been copied to your clipboard. (This no longer works for those who have upgraded to Flash 10.) To paste it in a document, press and hold down the ctrl key (command key for Mac users) while pressing the V key, or choose the "paste" option from the edit menu.
Johann Höchtl

Web design issues; What a semantic can represent - 0 views

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lee tim berners semantic web design issues URI identification

shared by Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Replace identifiers with URIs. Remove any requirement for global consistency. Put in a significant effort into getting critical mass. Sit back.
  • Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11
     
    2011 so gültig wie 1998: Ein Fahrplan von TBL zum Semantic Web
Johann Höchtl

Defining Gov 2.0 and Open Government | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms - 1 views

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opengov gov2.0 platform Shirky

shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The future of open government is allowing seamless conversations to occur between thousands of employees and people … You can’t divorce open government from technology. Technology enables the conversation and supports the conversation. We’re finding that if we don’t stand in the way of that conversation, incredible things can happen.
  • will open government be able to tap into the “civic surplus” to solve big problems. That’s Clay Shirky‘s “cognitive surplus,” applied to citizens and government. For open government to succeed, conveners need to get citizens to participate
Johann Höchtl

How Open Data is Used Against the Poor - 0 views

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opendata empowering poor literacy

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • An 'effective use' approach to open data would thus be one that ensured that opportunities and resources for translating this open data into useful outcomes would be available (and adapted) for the widest possible range of users. Thus, to ensure the effective use of open data a range of considerations needs to be included in the open data process and as elements in the open data movement including such factors as the cost and availability of Internet access, the language in which the data is presented, the technical or professional requirements for interpreting and making use of the data, the availability of training in data use and visualization, among others.
Johann Höchtl

Digress.it - 0 views

digress.it

annotate open data digress

shared by Johann Höchtl on 22 May 11 - Cached
  • They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Use digress.it to collectively dissect public documents like political speeches, corporate contracts or government transcripts.
  • digress.it makes this private space public, allowing communities of readers to turn documents into conversations
  • Johann Höchtl on 22 May 11
     
    Werkzeug zur gemeinsamen Annotation von Dokumenten und darauf aufbauend zur Diskussion.
Johann Höchtl

Stjórnlagaráð 2011 - English - 0 views

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island eParticipation twitter draft constitution

shared by Johann Höchtl on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The role of the Constitutional Council is to discuss the Constitutional Committee Report and prepare a bill about a revised constitution, taking into consideration the results of the National Forum 2010.
  • The candidates could also place introductions about themselves on the webpages: dv.is, svipan.is, wikipedia.com and on facebook.com/stjornlagathing.
  • Johann Höchtl on 13 Jun 11
     
    Island is asking for collaboratory drafting the constitution using GB, twitter et.al.
Johann Höchtl

Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space - 0 views

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linked data book open

shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 28 Aug 11
     
    Linked Data Book
Johann Höchtl

Open data could turn Europe's digital desert into a digital rainforest - Prof. Dirk Hel... - 0 views

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opendata open data big ecosystem

shared by Johann Höchtl on 04 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Johann Höchtl on 04 Mar 15
     
    Applications include real-time translation and disease prediction.
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