Re: UK e-GIF

Hi Ross,

Thanks for joining the list! Can you provide more information on e-GIF and in particular the issues it faced/reasons for retirement?

James

On 2013-03-10, at 6:16 PM, Ross Jones wrote:

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> Hi,
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> My name is Ross Jones, I'm a developer in the UK and a co-founder/COO of Open Health Care UK, an open-source health startup.  I am also a developer on the data.gov.uk site, which I joined directly from working at OKFN; neither of which organisations I represent here in any way. I'm here primarily as an individual although my hope is that the discussions and specifications to come out of this group will give me plenty to discuss with both of those teams.
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> My interest in this area has only arisen in the last couple of years, when I was fortunate enough to work with two of the mySociety co-founders at ScraperWiki in 2010, but I am hopeful that I will be able to contribute in a constructive, and possibly even useful way. I am not a big fan of government mandated standards, having been forced to use the UK e-GIF (now thankfully retired at http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100407120701/govtalk.gov.uk/schemasstandards/datastandards.asp) in a previous part of my career, but I am optimistic that community driven specifications are the way forward.
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> Ross
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