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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 […]
[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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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