Resources
Here’s where you can access tools to help you analyse, adapt and share the data. You'll also find video interviews and other features to help you get more out of this website.
The power of government data
Professor Nigel Shadbolt gave a talk about the power of government data and the work that he and others have been doing to open it up at The Guardian's Activate 2010 conference. Below is a video of his talk:
What is Linked Data?
Here is Sir Tim Berners-Lee on this at TED:
Michael Hausenblas's introductions:
Yves Raimond and Michael Smethurst's, BBC, A skim-read introduction to linked data
Tom Heath, Open University, technical tutorial on how to publish Linked Data
Using Linked Data
Jeni Tennison's excellent practitioner's blog
Semantic Web Development Tools
The Talis wiki (link to introduction to SPARQL)
SPARQL tutorials
History of project
- Power of Information Taskforce report
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt - scope of the appointment
- Design note from Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how to put government data online
- PM letter to Cabinet
- Creation of the Transparency Board & Publication of Public Data principles
What is the Semantic Web?
Combining different data sources has never been easy, but the Semantic Web will enable data to be joined easily across boundaries. Find out more on this page
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Catalyzing innovation and adding more transparency to government through the release of open data is an issue that should rise about partisan politics. At least, as far as I can see that was the message that Nigel Shadbolt delivered at a conference. Shadbolt’s presentation on how they did data.gov.uk, will definitely offer some fuel to the arguments of advocates in other countries or states working to justify standing up similar repositories – or defend one that are already online. As far as I know from the article found by byfiles search, it was only last month, after all, that the United States Congress weighed deep cuts to funding for federal open government data platforms, with the final budget slashing the White House Office of Management and Budget’s e-government fund by some 75%.
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The problem is that the MoD person could not open ODF files. The 'fault' being that people pushing open standards forget that as far as the rest of world is concerned, Word documents and PDFs ARE open standards, inasmuch as just about anyone can open/read them.
While ODF is a great idea - and I certainly support it - it shouldn't stop me accessing these documents in .DOC/.PDF. Otherwise it's not 'open' government.
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Its actually pretty difficult not to be able to open ODF as its an application and platform independent solution. If you can't it is worth working out why - you can even use online solutions if you're on a whitelisted machine. Its not even hard in what is on most public sector desktops - http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/12/microsoft-office-odf.html. More to the point it presumably means anyone the MoD official is working with is occuring an enforced and undeclared cost both in terms of licencing but also in a restricted choice of tools.
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Great to see the information being published except those of us within the Ministry of Defence cannot open the files as our IT does not support opd file format!
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See if the MoD it will allow the use of the tool ODF converter (http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter/) to be deployed on your machine(s). This will allow MS office to open .odf files. "Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 3.1Enables Open Document Format (Star Office) documents to be opened in MS Word, PowerPoint or Excel"
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Unfortunately, most of the links are blocked by my (public sector organisation) firewall and security settings...
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FORTNATELY most of the links are blocked for the public sector at work as they will be in most private companies you need to do what the rest of us have to do whcih is your job not trawing arround the internet in search of something to do at the taxpayers expence.
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It is well known that lots of public sector organisations and central government, block lots of websites e.g. social networking ones. Jeez, some council staff do not have access to external email. Despite this, there is still a push forward to spend a fortune on creating knowledge management websites that those people that the websites are intended for can not access.
You've missed the point!
If you work in the public sector you have the data you need to do your job ...if you don't, ask your boss. If you have the time to idly trawl through the raw data pertaining to other departments, etc. during working hours, you have too much time on your hands. You can either (a) take on more work, or (b) accept that your post is probably superfluous and simply sit back and await the redundancy notice.
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Isn't "Opening up government" about giving access to people that are not working in the public sector. If you want to view this information, do it from home in your own time, not the taxpayers.
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Pretty idiotic reply. This information is often an important internal research tool and can more easily be accessed through the public route. It is often easier for instance to search using google than internal website search tools.
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I do like the fact that ranters like those above often don't have the ability to read and assimilate.
The first post was trying to find out how to put data out when there is a compatibility issue.
I work in a government and one of the most time consuming activities is to find out statistics for activities outside my department.If government becomes more joined up in its provision of data to the public, it will also benefit dramatically itself by saving much of this time.Sharing the data may also drive standardisation of outputs across departments where possible to ease the process.
Oh and by the way, you can still be at your workplace and not working.
Witness my one-handed typing whilst munching a non-subsidised sandwich!!
Agreed.
You make some excellent points. Making the government data more transparent DOES increase better practices - due to accountability. The problem with making "transparency initiatives" in government is that it costs money, and exposes the government workers as corrupt frauds. In the meantime instead of worrying, I will buy some wow gold and move to a location on this planet where I can enjoy my freedom.
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