By Tim Davies on May 24, 2010
To use open government data, first there has to be some data there. For reasons of scope and space, the dramatic opening up of government datasets over the last few years is likely to be little more than a few lines at the start of my dissertation before I turn to look at use of data, but [...]
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By Tim Davies on May 24, 2010
Alongside the survey component of this study, I’m also taking a look at some embedded cases of data use from data.gov.uk. To make that a manageable task I’m restricting the focus to a few different domains of datasets. One such domain will definitely be education data, and the second is quite likely to be one [...]
Posted in MSc | Tagged Education
By Tim Davies on May 20, 2010
It seems the examining board liked the abstract I put forward for my dissertation, but the title wasn’t, well, formal and boring enough. Fortunately the chance to re-write and re-submit my title has given me the opportunity to bring it more into line with some of the theory coming up in the literature review I’m [...]
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By Tim Davies on May 20, 2010
A lot of discussions about using open government data centre on building things. Data.gov.uk for example lists ‘Apps’ created with the data, and there are many application competitions, local and national, inviting ideas for what should be developed next. However, skimming through some the early responses into the Open Data Impacts survey, whilst the majority [...]
Posted in MSc, Open Data | Tagged applications, uses
By Tim Davies on May 13, 2010
The FutureEverything conference today has been a veritable festival of open data talks and inputs, including inputs from Will Perrin, Chris Taggart, James Darling, Emer Coleman, Carole Goble, Nigel Shadbolt, Zach Beauvais, Jordan Hatcher and David Eaves. Whilst many speakers have been talking about the challenges of getting open data up online – challenging organisational [...]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc, Open Data, Policy, UK Local Government, UK National Goverment | Tagged futureeverything, Open Data
By Tim Davies on May 11, 2010
Who is making use of open government data? And how? If you’ve explored open government data in any way, then please spare 15 minutes to take a look at the Open Data Impacts survey that I’ve just published online. You can find the survey between now and the end of May at: http://limesurvey.oii.ox.ac.uk/index.php?sid=28672 All completed [...]
Posted in MSc | Tagged Open Data, Survey
By Tim Davies on May 4, 2010
[Update 5th May: I thought five was too few. See #6 from Southampton] Data.gov.uk now contains a list of over 3200 different datasets. One of those, is the data.gov.uk directory of datasets itself, allowing anyone to take and display information about UK open government data. Over the last few days I’ve come across a number [...]
Posted in MSc, Other Governments, UK National Goverment | Tagged data.gov.uk, datastores, directories
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