By Tim Davies on March 29, 2011
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
Posted in Open Data, Other Governments | Tagged ecosystems, Janet Hughes, 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 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 June 9, 2010
I’ve been working on the literature review section of my dissertation write up in the last week or so – and as part of that I started putting together a time-line of events that I thought were important in the development of current open government data initiatives in the UK. You can see version 0.1 […]
Posted in MSc | Tagged history, Open Data, timeline
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 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 March 1, 2010
I’m still developing the exact focus of this study – and I anticipate that the particular questions that will get the most focus in analysis won’t fully be settled until I’ve at least been able to run the pilot survey. However, I was reminded today that I was supposed to submit an project title and […]
Posted in MSc | Tagged abstract, Open Data, Open government, research design
By Tim Davies on February 21, 2010
If there is one thing I’ve learnt through the statistical methods course being offered as part of the OII MSc, it’s that establishing any sorts of facts with data is far from a straightforward process. Not so much when it comes to facts such as ‘the dataset says there is a school here’ (although being […]
Posted in MSc, Open Data, UK National Goverment | Tagged data, data.gov.uk, Open Data, schools
By Tim Davies on February 11, 2010
I’ve just submitted the curiously named ‘CUREC’ (it stands for Central University Research Ethic’s Committee it seems) form that I need to get approved before I can really get started on the Open Data Impacts research – so hopefully I’ll have more news on the project to share soon. Since initially starting to think about […]
Posted in MSc | Tagged Central University Research Ethic's Committee, ethics, Open Data, research methods
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