By Tim Davies on March 20, 2010
I went along to Rewired State DotGovLabs this weekend with the intention of being a participant-observer to help with the exploratory phase of my MSc dissertation research. It’s the first full-blown hack-day event I’ve been too, so I’d given a lot of thought in advance to how to be a participant-observer in a way that fits [...]
Posted in UK National Goverment | Tagged rewiredstate
By Tim Davies on March 19, 2010
[Summary: Today and tomorrow I'm getting the Open Data Impacts project 'field work' started with exploratory participant observation at Rewired State's DotGovLabs and Hack the Government Day 2010. If you're here/there then this post gives a quick bit of background on that and answers questions that participants in the event might have...] Who are you? [...]
Posted in MSc | Tagged rewiredstate
By Tim Davies on March 10, 2010
One of the great things about the OII Library is you never know who you will bump into. This afternoon, Professor James Hendler from the curiously-hard-name-to-parse-for-a-place-focussed-on-semantic-web Tetherless World Constellation (it’s a constellation of researchers studying the ‘Tetherless World’) was there – and we got talking about the differences between US and UK open data initiatives. Whereas [...]
Posted in Linked Data | Tagged Data.gov, James Hendler, Linked Data, RDF query language, Semantic Web, SPARQL
By Tim Davies on March 10, 2010
I’ve just had confirmation back from the Central University Research Ethics Committee (CUREC) that the Open Data Impacts project has been approved, so – uploaded here is a copy of the approved Project Information Sheet & Informed Consent Statement (PDF) for reference (and so I’ve got an easy URL to link people to for it in [...]
Posted in MSc
By Tim Davies on March 9, 2010
Around a year ago, Tim Berners-Lee stood in front of the TED Conference and had the delegates chanting ‘Raw Data Now’. In the six-minute talk below, Berners-Lee is back in front of TED reporting on developments of the last 12-months that mean much of the raw data is flowing. The video includes some great hat-tips [...]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc | Tagged Linked Data, NewsPaper Club, Open Knowledge Foundation, Paul Clarke, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Science Trust
By Tim Davies on March 1, 2010
I’m still developing the exact focus of this study – and I anticipate that the particular questions that will get the most focus in analysis won’t fully be settled until I’ve at least been able to run the pilot survey. However, I was reminded today that I was supposed to submit an project title and [...]
Posted in MSc | Tagged abstract, Open Data, Open government, research design
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