An impressive commitment! However, I remain of the view that just telling your underlings to make everything machine readable isn't likely to generate public benefits as fast as asking the public for the top 10 things they want machine readable, and then delivering those ASAP. How much stuff will NYC reformat that nobody wants?
Tom 2009/6/30 Owen Blacker <[email protected]>: > Sent: 30 June 2009 13:37 > To: All Staff Digital > Subject: NYC opens up data - says "make us cool stuff" > Importance: Low > > > > In a great move for open source development using real-world, available > data, Mayor Bloomberg has announced > (http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/clay-dillow/culture-buffet/bloomberg-launches-contest-apps-employing-nyc-agency-data) > that “all public city data will eventually be housed in a machine-readable > format” and The Big Apps contest will work through the recently announced > ".nyc" domain. > > > > http://www.brandflakesforbreakfast.com/2009/06/nyc-play-with-our-data-and-make-cool.html > > > > What’s also interesting here is the new city-level TLD of .nyc; more info on > this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nyc > > > > [.sig snipped] > > > > The contents of this email (and any attachments) are confidential and may be > legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the > sender immediately and do not distribute, copy or disclose its contents. > Thank you very much. > > ======================================================================= > > iris Digital Limited > The company registered number 6441304 > Registered in England and Wales > Registered address : 185 Park Street London SE1 9DY > > This email has been scanned for Virus infection by MessageLabs > > ======================================================================= > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
