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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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