By Tim Davies on February 11, 2011
Michael Gurstein’s blog post last year on Open Data: Empowering the Empowered, or Effective Use for Everyone sparked some interesting discussions about how open data policies and practices impact different groups on the ground. The question of what impacts open data will have in different contexts has been picked up in Daniel Kaplan’s recent post on the […]
Posted in Open Data
By Tim Davies on January 21, 2011
Nigel Shadbolt writes in the Guardian today about ‘A year of data.gov.uk’ and the progress of the last year on open government data (I really need to update my timeline…) and the challenges that are still ahead. However, whilst he recognises that interest in data comes from far beyond just the developer community, the focus […]
Posted in Open Data | Tagged data-related products, end-user applications, Nigel Shadbolt, Open Data, Public Data Corp, The Guardian
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 […]
Posted in Linked Data, MSc, Open Data, Other Governments, UK National Goverment
By Tim Davies on September 28, 2010
The front slide of this deck from Daniel Kaplan suggests it looks at “Public Service Information in France – and more” – and the ‘and more’ is certainly well added. If you’ve any interest in the implications of open data policy I thoroughly recommend taking a look through Daniel’s slides, which unpack some the potential […]
Posted in Open Data, Other Governments | Tagged critical perspectives, David Kaplan
By Tim Davies on August 10, 2010
[Summary: Rough ideas around tools and conventions for open data re-use….] The context My dissertation research was focussed on the re-users of open government data: people who had their hands directly on a dataset. However, any model of open data leading to change also has to have end-users: the people using things that have been […]
Posted in Open Data | Tagged Open Data, Workflow
By Tim Davies on July 30, 2010
Hadley Beeman has been doing some fantastic work developing conversations and ideas to meet many of the challenges that current open government data users are encountering. You can read her latest update on the project over here. What I meant to be a short comment turned into a blog-length set of reflections, so – reposted […]
Posted in Open Data, UK National Goverment
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 – […]
Posted in MSc, Open Data, Survey, UK Local Government
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 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 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
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