From EPSI Platform (European Public Sector Information Platform): The World Wide Web Foundation promotes building a global directory of open data references and related information resources. The Open Data Directory (ODD) will host a variety of resources, such as: use cases, case studies, stories and anecdotes, methodologies, strategies, business cases, papers, reports, articles, blog posts, training […]
Help Write the Open Data Directory, Six Days Remain to Share Your Comments
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Business Research: How Open is Company Data in Open Government Partnership Countries? (New Report)
Filed by on April 16, 2012
From the Open Corporates Blog: OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is not good. Out of a total of a possible 100 points, the average score was just 21, with several major countries (including Spain, Greece and Brazil) scoring zero. A score of 100 […]
Europe: "Making the Case for Open Data" (Conference Slides)
Filed by on March 26, 2012
From the European Public Sector Information Platform (ePSIplatform Blog) In her video message EC Vice President Neelie Kroes called upon the ePSIplatform Conference 2012 participants to go out and make the case for open government data. The European Commission DG Information Society has published an assessment of the different models of supply and charging for […]
Open Data: DOE Data Explorer Now Searches Individual Datasets
Filed by on March 2, 2012
From the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information: Now you can find individual datasets via the DOE Data Explorer. When you first enter your search term, the DOE Data Explorer retrieves collection records from the database. Then, from your results page, you can choose to have all the related individual dataset […]
New Article: "OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate"
Filed by on February 21, 2012
Title OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate Author by Julie Allinson Source Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (February/March 2012; Vol. 38 No. 3) From the Introduction OpenART (http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/category/openart) was a six-month project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom under their Infrastructure […]
New U.S. Government Resource: Open Innovation Toolkit
Filed by on February 14, 2012
The toolkit might be of special interest to infotech, business, government researchers. However, the resources featured will likely be of value to many others. From the Open Government Initiative Blog: On his last day in office, then-U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra released the Open Innovator’s Practitioner’s Toolbox. It contains 20 of the best disruptive […]
Europe: Two New National Open Data Portals Set to Launch Soon
Filed by on February 14, 2012
via the ePSIplatform Web Site: 1. Estonian Data Portal At End of Month At a conference organised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications on open government data, the data portal was said to be ready at the end of February, and to be made available under the URL opendata.riik.ee. Currently the URL shows […]
Linked Data: German National Library Goes LOD & Publishes National Bibliography
Filed by on January 28, 2012
From the Open Bibliographic Data Working Group Blog: Good news from Germany. The German National Library changed its licensing regime for Linked Data to CC0 which makes the data open according to the open definition, has begun to publish the German national bibliography as Linked Open Data. Read the Complete Blog Post Direct to Linked […]
