- From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:45:55 +0000
- To: Jose Manuel Alonso <josema.alonso@fundacionctic.org>
- Cc: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola@gmail.com>, george <george@thomas.name>, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, public-egov-ig <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
I should add that we've been thinking about creating a new site at rawdatanow.com (domain kindly donated by Tom Heath) for individuals/organisations thinking about publishing their 'raw data' - to expand upon what we mean by this phrase and offer guidance and links to relevant resources. Thread is here: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2009-October/006940.html Jonathan On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jose Manuel Alonso <josema.alonso@fundacionctic.org> wrote: > 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 > > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org Twitter/Identica: jwyg
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