By Tim Davies on July 30, 2010
Hadley Beeman has been doing some fantastic work developing conversations and ideas to meet many of the challenges that current open government data users are encountering. You can read her latest update on the project over here. What I meant to be a short comment turned into a blog-length set of reflections, so – reposted [...]
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By Tim Davies on July 29, 2010
The University bit is done. Having a few days to breathe – and then I’ll try and work out how best to draw out the practical learning from the project…
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By Tim Davies on July 26, 2010
After a few weeks battling with a very tight word-limit (note to self: don’t try an exploratory, mixed-method and strongly qualitative research design if faced with a 10,000 word limit in future…) I’ve almost completed the dissertation part of this project. I believe the dissertation itself needs to be marked before I can share it [...]
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By Tim Davies on July 19, 2010
I shared some the draft findings of this study at a West Midlands Open Data event last week. I was speaking right before lunch, and the programme had over-run a little – so what you get in the video below is somewhat of a brisk canter through where I’d got to as of last Wednesday [...]
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By Tim Davies on July 18, 2010
I’ve been uploading more of the raw data from the survey to the survey page today alongside putting together a reflective-journal/open-workbench presentation detailing the analysis behind the ‘Open Government Data User Motivations’ section of my dissertation write up. The presentation is embedded below or accessible on SlideShare here. Who is using Open Government Data – [...]
Posted in MSc, Open Data, Survey, UK Local Government
By Tim Davies on July 9, 2010
I’m revisiting my literature review as I enter the last few weeks of writing up this study for my MSc dissertation, and I wanted to try and get a sense of all the different arguments that have been put forward for the release of Open Government Data. So, here’s the ongoing list of different arguments [...]
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By Tim Davies on July 8, 2010
One of the approaches I’ve been using in trying to analyse the 50 or so different cases of open data use I’ve collected in this study is to divide up the different processes of data use. I started with a simple schematic, and building on the theoretical reading I’ve been doing around data and information, [...]
Posted in Open Data, Other Governments, Policy, UK National Goverment
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