By Tim Davies on September 30, 2010
The following poster (also available on the report pages – please link there if referencing) was presented at the ‘Web Science: A New Frontier’ satellite meeting at The Royal Society Kavli Centre, 29th September 2010 and summarises some elements of the study. Click the image to access a full-size version on Flickr, or find a PDF copy [...]
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By Tim Davies on August 26, 2010
A report based on the research for my MSc Dissertation is now available here*. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the research whether in discussions, interviews or responding to the survey. As promised, I’ve started to share data from the survey, and will add to this as time allows in coming weeks. Published for [...]
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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 – [...]
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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 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 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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