On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <[email protected]> > The Prime Minister has also asked Ministers to treat requests for data > from the public as though they had been made under the forthcoming > legal Right to Data, and with a presumption in favour of transparency; > and that all published data is licensed for free reuse. Please feel > free to take us up on this by requesting more data.
Very positive. I think the question is now "what data does the government have"? We can request the obvious, but is there any assurance for the release of obscure or forgotten datasets that would are otherwise unlikely to be requested? Does the government even have an index of its unreleased datasets? Even if the intention is to never release it, or that a public release would be a long way off for whatever reason - it would be good to know what sets/properties are collected/held and if possible what the status of that data is (priority for release, estimated time to public release, requires cleaning/redacting before release etc.). Iain _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
