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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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