Just in time for the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki we’ve added one new paper, and two new field notes to the Open Data Special Issue of the Journal of Community Informatics. Simon McGinnes and Kasturi Muthu Elandy in their article Unintended Behavioural Consequences of Publishing Performance Data: Is More Always Better? question the mechanisms by […]
This is the second in a short series of research notes that aim to draw out practical points from my current PhD explorations of the impacts of open data on inclusive governance. This one draws on a piece I’m working on about taking a broad reading of what it means to have an open data […]
Two open data related publications I’ve been working on have made it to the web in the last few days. Having spent a lot of the last few years working to support organisations to explore the possibilities of open data, these feel like they represent a more critical strand of exploring OGD, trying to embrace […]
I’m exploring creating a series of short notes based on my current PhD research into open data as tools to support wider dialogue around data policy and practice. Here’s a draft of the first one, trying to set out some clear categories for understanding debates over data. It’s also available as a two-page PDF here. […]
This weekend, an interesting e-mail on the Open Spending mailing list from Angelica Peralta Ramos at the Desarrollando Latin American hack day put out a call for ideas around evaluating government data portals. What sort of factors should feature in evaluating an official government statistics site, or an open data portal? Evaluating and rating a portal is a different […]
How do you evaluate or compare open government data initiatives (ODI)? With initiatives like data.gov and data.gov.uk well established, and well over 100 national and city-level open data initiatives emerging across the globe, the question of evaluating these initiatives is coming up more and more. As Jose Alonso of the World Wide Foundation has noted […]
Reposted from Tim’s Blog. [Summary: reflections on data-shaped design, and adding user persona as a new raw material in working with open data] A lot has been written recently about the fact that open data alone is not enough to make a difference. Data needs to be put into the hands of those who can use it to make […]
Open Data Campaigning Camp last week brought together around 30 campaigners, developers and open data experts interesting in exploring the intersection of open data and campaigning. The ingredients: Campaigners work to influence change, often by building up and demonstrating popular support for an issue: working to attract attention to issues through mainstream media, online media, […]
The presentation below from Janet Hughes, Head of Scrutiny, at the London Assembly offers a useful metaphor for thinking about the eco-system of open data use – and what’s needed beyond just raw data to drive change. How to make the flowers bloom View more presentations from Janet Hughes
Update 23rd May: Updated link to the draft paper, and revised (clearer) version of the complementarity diagram. There’s a general perception that, for most open datasets, it’s still pretty tricky to do really useful things with them. Whether it’s the need for data to be better cleaned and annotated, the need for shared source code […]
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