Re: W3C eGov Today: Project Open Data, Stack Exchange, Data Science

Wow, you Data Scientists will eat anything*

Along the same lines as: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind

1) At some point before 1900, the volume of Peer Reviewed publications exceeded the eyeball time of the practitioners.  It became impossible for an individual expert member of the discipline to read all the good stuff.
2) As noted (Census American Community Survey) Americans speak at least 39 languages and language groups at home.


Government Open Data is in the same bind.  The terminology (display language) of government web sites is restricted to a small set.  Constitutions and founding documents worldwide use the same terms - Free Expression or Free Speech, for example. Peer Review, messy as it is, is the process by which peers recognize good stuff regardless of language.  Attempts to carve top level domains out of language constituencies are seriously misguided, IMHO (W3C tag, W3C uri, W3c iri, etc.).  Unicode or the lack of Unicode is not a systemic access problem for Open Government Data unless made so by hexadecimal fan bois. Most government pages get by on a few languages, and then there's europa.eu that has 20 something.  If it is true that "money talks" that means it classifies people in the same way as language. Governments get by on one currency.  Some colors and numbers are more attractive than others, apparently and transparently.


Beginning with the end in mind ...

europa.eu is tending toward an interlingua - an auxiliary language of peer reviewers and Government Open Data speaks this same language and uses the same diversity of coin.

That's what this categorization is all about.


http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/ogd/

Sorry about the character sets, my data base instances are not in sync. working on it.  




--Gannon




* A school teacher friend recently arrived in Kiev recommends Tapas (Spanish cuisine appetizers) with local Horseradish Vodka. The Facebook picture of the restaurant sign in Cyrillic was just plain odd looking, however.



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 From: Brand Niemann <bniemann@cox.net>
To: "'Holm, Jeanne M (1760)'" <jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov>; public-egovernance@w3.org 
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 3:41 AM
Subject: RE: W3C eGov Today: Project Open Data, Stack Exchange, Data Science
 


An example of a “scraper Wiki” type data extraction and visualization  that I mentioned in my comments yesterday:
http://semanticommunity.info/Census_Data_Visualization 
 
Also my early data.gov using Beautiful Soup parser:
http://semanticommunity.info/Data.gov/Build_Data_Catalogs_in_the_Cloud_in_Support_of_Data.gov_and_EPA's_Strategic_Data_Action_Plan
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/earthquakes-are-huge-on-datago.html
http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1974-use-beautifulsoup-to-parse-data-gov/
 
Brand
 
From:Holm, Jeanne M (1760) [mailto:jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov] 
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 3:44 AM
To: public-egovernance@w3.org
Subject: W3C eGov Today: Project Open Data, Stack Exchange, Data Science
 
Hi all--
 
Just a reminder about our meeting today at 11:00 am-12:30 pm EST (time zone converter:  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=W3C+eGov+August+23+Meeting&iso=20130823T08&p1=137&ah=1&am=30��)
 
Agenda
	* 11-11:15: W3C eGovernment conversion from Working Group to Community (Jeanne Holm) 
	* Name change to Electronic Governance (eGov) Community
	* New home page: http://www.w3.org/community/egovernance/��
	* 11:15-11:45:  Project Open Data approach to open source policy and technology and co-development with citizens (Gray Brooks) 
	* Site at: http://project-open-data.github.io��
	* 11:45-12:00:  Open Data Stack Exchange available 
	* Site at: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/ (Joe Hourcle)
	* 12:00-12:25:  Opportunities for data science (Brand Niemann) 
	* Slides at: http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/25742/BrandNiemann08232013.pptx
	* 12:25-12:30:  Adjourn
Scribe:  TBD
 
--Telecon line: Dial +1-617-761-6200 or sip:zakim@voip.w3.org then conference code 3468# ("EGOV#")
--W3C IRC channel #egov, see http://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/ or use http://irc.w3.org/?channels=egov��
--Group access via the W3C at http://www.w3.org/community/egovernance/ (archive at http://www.w3.org/egov/) and also via LinkedIn at the W3C eGovernment Interest Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1800648&trk=hb_side_g
 
--Jeanne

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