- From: Jose Manuel Alonso <josema.alonso@fundacionctic.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:34:44 +0100
- To: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- Cc: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola@gmail.com>, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>, george <george@thomas.name>, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
El 23/01/2010, a las 15:29, Peter Krantz escribió: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:38, Antti Poikola > <antti.poikola@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I believe that there should be some pragmatic way to publish raw >> data at the >> same time while continuing to develope the information >> architecture. How >> this should be communicated to the managers of different public >> offices? >> > > I have had some success in explaining a three step process: > > 1. Publish whatever you have in whatever format it currently is in. > This provides data for people to start tinkering with and ask > questions about. > 2. While data is out there, start thinking about the context it lives > in. We are looking at harmonizing the way agencies publish their > vocabularies as a first step (e.g. OWL). > 3. Gradually adapt your data to make it use common identifiers for > common things. +1 We are currently using this approach in a project. I would say we are also doing a 1.5: describing metadata properly. I must say that, although doing it this way is ok, usefulness of 1. in many cases is quite low. Stupid example: <weather date="12643488000000" type="0" /> Yeah, today at 10am it was cloudy around here... -- Jose
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