- From: Jose M. Alonso <josema@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:35:51 +0200
- To: Adam Harvey <harvey@thedesignstate.com>
- Cc: eGov IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Hi Adam, El 22/06/2009, a las 1:47, Adam Harvey escribió: > Hello Jose, > > I'm sorry it took me a few days to get back to you on this. It's ok, thanks for the input. > 1. I think this is just the sort of deliverable that the group > should produce in Year 2. The whitepaper/memo format allows us to > target specific areas of interest in a short enough format for > others to pay attention to. If the progression of short documents is > planned out well enough, it might even be possible to eventually > combine them all together into a handbook, or a larger/more robust > version of a new Note. Agree. > 2. This particular memo is obviously targeted to someone in a > management position. I think that's fine. As we start to produce > more specific BPs for the actual implementation of OGD, further > papers can fill in the technical gaps, and can be targeted toward > the people who will actually get the OGD process in place (how to > coordinate acquiring and distributing data, how to make the data > findable by human and machine, how to address any security concerns, > etc.) Agree, too. > 3. The content is necessarily high-level, but I always think that > documents of this sort can benefit from one or two concrete or > hypothetical examples of the possibilities that OGD opens up for > both govs and citizens. Stuff like the Hellenic Shipping maritime > traffic mashup [1]. What if there was a version that showed the > location of all emergency vehicles in a county, for example, or a > map of Social Security offices across the nation. That's the only > addition I can think of at the moment. Impressive mashup. I don't have a strong opinion about it. For example, if people think an example or two would benefit the doc, it's fine. > Most of the issues I have with the memo are grammatical, and I'm on > the ETF, so I'll save that input for a different conversation. Ok. Thanks again, Jose. > [1] http://download.hellenicshippingnews.com/img/all_google_map.html > > Thanks, > Adam > > On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:22 AM, Jose M. Alonso wrote: > >> Group, >> >> Chairs have been discussing how the deliverables of the group could >> look alike, balancing technical work with communications and >> outreach work; you heard me saying before I think we should put >> more emphasis on communicating... >> >> Given the discussions we had so far on data.gov [1] and the >> recently hints on an upcoming data.gov.uk, and the number of >> increasing initiatives asking for input from the group, we drafted >> a memo based on the content of the Note that could serve as the >> group's high level advice on how to build any data.gov.* site [3]. >> >> We'd like to hear from you if this is the sort of deliverable you'd >> like the group to produce in year 2, what kind of audience it could >> help and also your thoughts about the content itself. >> >> We plan to hold a Chairs call tomorrow but we could also bring this >> to the Group call next week. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jose. >> >> [1] http://data.gov >> [2] http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/05/22/Information-and-how-to-make-it-useful.aspx >> [3] http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/IG/wiki/data-gov-memo >> >> -- >> Jose M. Alonso <josema@w3.org> W3C/CTIC >> eGovernment Lead http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/ >> > >
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