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Johann Höchtl

When is Linked Data not Linked Data? - 0 views

  • production of a briefing paper that disambiguated some of the terminology for those that are less familiar with this domain
  • Linked Data must adhere to the four principles outlined in Tim Berners Lee’s Linked Data Design Issues
  • Use URIs as names for things Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.
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    Design Principles of Open Data
Parycek

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

  • 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.
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    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

UK: Government webpage for every citizen - 0 views

  • personalised website through which they would be able to find out about local services and do business with the Government.
  • government version of Facebook.
  • unique identifier
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    in the race to create a paperless society - Times Online
Parycek

The Five Best Government Blogs and The Six Reasons Why They Work - 0 views

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    With the Obama Administration placing a high priority on the goal of transparency in the federal government these days, blogging has become a dynamic, useful tool for agency officials to communicate thoughts, opinions and information directly to the public.
Johann Höchtl

Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers - 1 views

  • With APIs, you let other developers do your R&D for you. The benefit? You get development at scale with minimal investment. You effectively outsource risk because failures don’t cost you anything.
  • It’s easy to envision how brands whose core business revolves around technology or data could make use of an API
  • By providing access to that value through an API, they would allow the delivery of that value to spread exponentially.
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    Begründungen, warum offene API's einen Mehrwert bringen. Auch anwendbar für Open Data
Johann Höchtl

Policy Framework for Government Held Information - Ministry of Justice, New Zealand - 0 views

  • Policy Framework for Government Held Information
  • They take the view that Government held information is a strategic resource that requires good management through its lifecycle
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    The almost Open Data Policy Framework of New Zealand
Johann Höchtl

Questioning Shirky's Cognitive Surplus - 0 views

  • Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead on some sophisticated task
  • True socially-infused movements cannot be forced
  • The bad news for marketers is that Shirky’s examples quietly illustrate that we can’t force meaningful social activities. They happen organically, if not accidentally
Johann Höchtl

Digress.it - 0 views

  • 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
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    Werkzeug zur gemeinsamen Annotation von Dokumenten und darauf aufbauend zur Diskussion.
Johann Höchtl

High Scalability - High Scalability - Web 2.0 Killed the Middleware Star - 0 views

  • Web 2.0 applications don’t generally use a middleware tier to facilitate messaging across users or applications. They use APIs and web-based database access methods to go directly to the source.
  • it certainly appears that between cloud computing models and Web 2.0 having been forced to solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.
Johann Höchtl

Agile will fail GovIT, says corporate lawyer - Public Sector IT - 0 views

  • The Agile methodology is meant to deliver IT projects flexibly, in iterations.
  • But the lack of clearly defined project roles and requirements is a problem for Agile.
  • There are four clear reasons why Agile won't work in government ICT. The most obvious is that government customers want to know up-front how much a system will cost
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  • Departmental budgets are managed very tightly, and they must be approved
  • Agile is fourthly not suited to public sector management structures.
Johann Höchtl

Comment Neelie - About - 0 views

  • This is a system which publishes Neelie Kroes speeches in commentable format right after they are published. Ideally, people in the audience will be able to comment right after the speech, or at least during the conference.
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