hi Rufus, interesting would you mind using a wiki instead of a blog for the discussion?
why? I consider wikis a much better tool for discussing not one-way but in a multi-way ecosystem looking forward to join in Claudie On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:45:18 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote > Hi All, > > I've just posted up a new piece (with hand-drawn diagrams!) on the > Foundation's blog about building the Open Data Ecosystem: > > <http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/31/building-the-open-data-ecosystem/> > > I've included the first few paragraphs of the piece below. I'd be very > interested in any feedback or thoughts people had! > > Regards, > > Rufus > > ## The Present: A One-Way Street > > At the current time, the basic model for data processing is a [UTF-8?]âone > way > [UTF-8?]streetâ. Sources of data, such as government, publish data out into > the world, where, (if we are lucky) it is processed by intermediaries > such as app creators or analysts, before finally being consumed by end > users1. > > It is a one way street because there is no feedback loop, no sharing > of data back to publishers and no sharing between intermediaries. > > So what should be different? > > ## The Future: An Ecosystem > > What we should have is an ecosystem. In an ecosystem there are data > cycles: infomediaries [UTF-8?]â intermediate consumers of data such as > builders of apps and data wranglers [UTF-8?]â should also be publishers who > share back their cleaned / integrated / packaged data into the > ecosystem in a reusable way [UTF-8?]â these cleaned and integrated datasets > being, of course, often more valuable than the original source. > > In addition, corrected data, or relevant [UTF-8?]âpatchesâ should find > their > way back to data producers so data quality improves at the source. > Finally, end users of data need not be passive consumers but should be > also be able to contribute back [UTF-8?]â flagging errors, or submitting > corrections themselves. > > With the introduction of data cycles we have a real ecosystem not a > one way street and this ecosystem thrives on collaboration, > componentization and open data. > > [.... more at > <http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/31/building-the-open-data-ecosystem/>] > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss thanks & cheers, Claudia Best regards, Claudia Koltzenburg ~~~ C. Koltzenburg, Managing editor Cellular Therapy and Transplantation, http://www.ctt-journal.com <[email protected]> CTT supports the Wikipedia survey for experts: http://survey.nitens.org/?sid=21693 (open until 15 April 2011) Recent article on the survey: Wikipedia wants more contributions from academics http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-contributions ~~~
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