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
By Tim Davies on April 29, 2010
[Filed under: documenting the process of the project & thinking aloud] Yesterday was the day when the thesis component of the OII MSc properly kicked off – so I hope I’ll be updating this blog more regularly for the next three months whilst I’m dedicating most of my time to this research. Over the last […]
Posted in MSc | Tagged Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software, research methods
By Tim Davies on March 19, 2010
[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? […]
Posted in MSc | Tagged rewiredstate
By Tim Davies on March 10, 2010
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 […]
Posted in MSc
By Tim Davies on March 9, 2010
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 […]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc | Tagged Linked Data, NewsPaper Club, Open Knowledge Foundation, Paul Clarke, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Science Trust
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