Originally posted on “osrin.net”, 20th October 2009 The level of activity around the world in opening up government data is nothing short of astounding. Governments at every level have engaged citizens, businesses and developers in combinations of public discussions and hackfests to look at how the data that they hold can be used in newRead… Read more »
Originally posted on “osrin.net“, on 9th November 2009 The current trend of governments releasing massive and diverse datasets will demand something different from internet search tools in the future, something that we might consider a little extraordinary today. Today most of us search in a single dimension, we tap a term into our favourite webRead… Read more »
In addition to publishing downloadable data and open interfaces, government needs to learn from successful commercial websites and bring their “Deep Web” data to the surface. I have posted some thoughts on this on my personal blog: Do You See Spiders? Making Government Data Truly Open I’d appreciate feedback, either here or in my blogRead… Read more »
San Francisco is starting an open source community to liberate government data. We have several developers on the team and we’re looking for other cities to join us. Our goal is to develop an open source platform to help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. You can get more detailsRead… Read more »