On 04/01/2011 18:17, Francis Davey wrote:
On 4 January 2011 18:16, Kevin Wells<[email protected]> wrote:
Could pressure not be brought on them to get in on there, as this
government say they want to open up data?
I am sure it could. I'm not sure how. I've tried:
- mentioning it to journalists in the hope they may write disparaging
things as a result
- going to see the MoJ and talking to them about it
- talking about it myself to anyone who will listen
- indirectly asking MPs and others to take an interest (without much
success, its hard for people to "get" what is wrong with bailii's
stance)
Has this contact been since the election, or mostly before?
The problem is while its plain and obvious to anyone who understands
open data that what the court service does is just plain wrong, its
hard to explain to people who don't understand openness why bailii
isn't sufficient.
Can you explain, in fairly simple terms, why it isn't sufficient? I
mean, I don't have all that much use for law reports most of the time,
but I am a web author and I think that Bailii is pretty badly presented
from a technical point of view. But lots of official or semi-official
websites are pretty badly presented, and "I reckon I could do better"
isn't necessarily a particularly strong argument :-)
Mark
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