Re: Government Linked Data Working Group Charter

It should be stressed that any such Primer should be country agnostic and not US centric. Resources from outside the US (with translations if possible) would be welcome :)

Cheers

Chris Beer (iPhone)

On 17/02/2011, at 11:14, Josh Tauberer <tauberer@govtrack.us> wrote:

> > a work product along the lines of a "Linked Open Data Primer for Chief
> > Information Officers."
> 
> This is the type of email that makes me glad to still be reading the WG emails from time to time. An identified need with a proposal for a concrete, bounded, achievable output.
> 
> There are a number of documents on open gov data and linked open data already, so the question I have is: what aspects of these documents are or are not useful/convincing/understandable for a government CIO? (For one, they're probably all too long.)
> 
> To highlight my favorites on this subject (including some of my own writing):
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/gov-data/
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/egov-improving/
> 
> http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData
> 
> Mayo, Ed and Tom Steinberg. The Power of Information: An independent review. June 2007.
> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/poi/power-of-information-review.pdf
> 
> Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S.A. government. Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society: Report of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data to the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council. January 2009.
> http://www.nitrd.gov/About/Harnessing_Power.aspx
> 
> Robinson, David G., Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P. and Felten, Edward W. Government Data and the Invisible Hand. 2009. Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, p. 160.
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=1138083
> 
> Tauberer, Joshua. Open Data is Civic Capital. May 2009.
> http://razor.occams.info/pubdocs/opendataciviccapital.html
> (and citations within!)
> 
> Tauberer, Joshua. Building a Civic Semantic Web. August 2009. Nodalities.
> http://www.talis.com/nodalities/pdf/nodalities_issue7.pdf
> 
> Uhlir, Paul F. The socioeconomic effects of public sector information on digital networks: Workshop Summary. U.S. National Committee for CODATA Board on Research Data and Information Policy and Global Affairs. 2009.
> http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12687
> 
> 
> I think all of the relevant information has already been written somewhere by now, but it may not be in a useful form for this case (despite everyone's attempt to try).
> 
> 
> - Josh Tauberer
> - CivicImpulse / GovTrack.us
> 
> http://razor.occams.info | www.govtrack.us | civicimpulse.com
> 
> "Members of both sides are reminded not to use guests of the
> House as props."
> 
> On 02/15/2011 04:09 PM, Pendleton.Michael@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> A suggestion I have for work on Gov't Linked Data is to include a work
>> product along the lines of a "Linked Open Data Primer for Chief
>> Information Officers."
>> 
>> I would be happy to discuss further what I think such a document should
>> address.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael Pendleton
>> Terminology Services Manager
>> Office of Environmental Information
>> U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
>> Phone: (202) 566-1658
>> Fax: (202) 566-1639
>> 
>> 
>

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