Jason Hare's Data Management Blog

  Why Define Open Data? In January 2013, the Public Innovation Network (PIN) featured a video related to Open Government in which are collected a set of 42 standards that a Government or Administration must meet to be considered open. The dissemination and return that this video has had on the Internet has been considerable. The video has been the basis for debate within many administrations, and it has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian and Catalan.   The PIN would like to continue generating discussion and spreading the notion of Open Government as an evolution of the deliberative democracy towards participatory environments, truly focused on citizenship and networking. This is the reason why I was invited to participate in the new PIN project. The set of these articles will be collected in an electronic publication that we will be distributed under a Creative Commons license recognition.   So that is why I am posting this topic. I have my own views ...

"What do I gotta do to get you to GoCode?" This is an ongoing joke between Jessica and DJ from the Durango GoCode team. It sums up their determination to make this event an inclusive one. I attended  Go Code Durango  as a member of the  Open Data Institute . I was worked with the Xentity team, providing support for the Socrata platform that was used by the  Colorado Information Marketplace  (CIM). CIM is a Socrata-powered platform and therefore the Xentity team provided API and data support for the Socrata part of the challenge.         Photo by  http://www.23rdstudios.com / Go Code was a unique experience. I was a part of a five team, cross-site effort to coach and mentor development teams and help them create applications. What makes this event different from others I’ve attended is the passion, the careful selection of sites, the organization of the five challenges, and the people of Colorado. We had the pleasure of meeting the very t...

  The Future is Here You are the future of open data. Last year I was the keynote speaker of the first open data day in Cary. Last year we had a third of the audience here today. Now Triangle Open Data Day does not need open data personalities. This event happened because city and county leaders came together with you. You represent the thinkers, the doers, the “why not?” hackers and storytellers that will take data unlocked by people like me. You get to decide the future of open data. You will get to create the products and collaborate with government in delivering value through open data. But more of this story will be presented later. I would like to introduce Gavin Starks, CEO of the Open Data Institute. Sir Tim Berners Lee is the President of the Open Data Institute and the World Wide Web Consortium as well as the first thought leader to imagine open linked data on the web back in 1989. Listen to Gavin talk about the “what’s next” in open data. How We Got Here: The Rise of Sta...

  think? Francis Davies Francis Davies does, among many other things, consulting on legal matters for The Open Data Institute and the Open Knowledge Foundation. Originally posted by Francis Davies on his blog:  http://www.francisdavey.co.uk/2014/02/copying-sharing-and-remixing-what-do.html I am completing a part-time LLM (masters) in  computer and communications law  with Queen Mary University London. I would really appreciate your help in  completing a survey . It should take less than 5 minutes to complete. If you want to know more about the survey, read on... I, like many lawyers, spend a lot of time thinking, talking and writing about intellectual property law and, in particular, copyright. But law is not the whole story. People do what they do for all sorts of reasons: what the law says is only one of them. People may also be driven by socially accepted rules of conduct known as  social norms . In simple terms: what they think is OK. Norms are complica...

  Originally posted on  http://triangleopendataday.com/ Open Data is about the free flow of information.  It can be information as mundane as water usage or as transformative as government records. Triangle Open Data Day (TODD) focuses on three issues: Open Data Education Hacking for Civic Good Uniting the Triangle through Data  Track 1: Education Track 1 is a series of workshops on Saturday, February 22, 2014. It is geared toward the general public and anyone with an interest in the burgeoning Open Data movement in the Triangle. Topics may include: What is Open Data? Examples of Open Data What you can do with Open Data The Importance of Maps Privacy Issues Triangle Code for America Brigades Registration is open for  TODD Track 1 .  Track 2: Hackers Track 2 focuses on implementing projects – hacking for public good. Programmers, data analysts, web developers, public officials and students may all be interested in Track 2. Participants pitch ideas, form grou...

  Ireland Starts the Open Data Journey with an RFT The national Open Data initiative for Ireland is part of the emerging innovation trend in open government data and apps. Government is essential to providing the critical services that keep communities safe, viable, and growing, ranging from public safety to education to health policy. Governments drive the core services that impact the day to day lives of most citizens. Trends in Open Data Initiatives: OGP and CSO influences Like Ireland, 61 member countries of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) use various CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) to consult on the long range vision and ultimate strategy toward an open data initiative. To a much lesser degree, the United States at the Federal level and local jurisdictions have been much less thorough in developing, maintaining and consulting with CSOs. Recently, the City of Raleigh has decided to let the Open Data Steering Committee, our local CSO, comment and make recommendations of...

  German Ministry of the Interior has issued   Frag den Staat , (a German FOI portal run by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany) with a cease and desist order, for publishing a document on EU party quotas which they obtained under the FOI law. Below is the English translation from the Frag den Staat blog. Please republish and lend your support. Access to data is supported by the ODI, OKF, the OGP and many other world wide organizations. Cease and desist by the German government for publishing a document received under FOI law The German Federal Ministry of the Interior has sent a cease and desist order to the Freedom of Information (FOI) portal FragDenStaat.de for publishing a document received under the German federal FOI law. The document – a five page study written by government staff – analyses a ruling by the German constitutional court in November 2011 which declared the 5% party quota for the European Parliament elections as unconstitutional. The study concludes that ...