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 – [...]
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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
By Tim Davies on June 9, 2010
I’ve been working on the literature review section of my dissertation write up in the last week or so – and as part of that I started putting together a time-line of events that I thought were important in the development of current open government data initiatives in the UK. You can see version 0.1 [...]
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By Tim Davies on June 6, 2010
Following on from a meeting of the UK Government’s Local Data Panel, Dan Slee, Michael Grimes and Stuart Harrison have set up a handy local data wiki looking at some of the common arguments against, and replies to those arguments, regarding the release of local authority datasets. I’ve just spent a few hours tinkering on [...]
Posted in MSc, Open Data, UK Local Government | Tagged Open Data
By Tim Davies on June 4, 2010
I’m keeping the Open Data Impacts survey open for a few more weeks, until the 14th June, to allow extra time for responses – as word is still getting out to different communities of open data users. If you’ve not yet had a look and completed the survey you can find it here: http://limesurvey.oii.ox.ac.uk/index.php?sid=28672 Ta.
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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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