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
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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