Excellent… Maybe we could take a leaf from people like the Gideons, and leave copies of the Open Data Handbook in all local government offices? :)
I agree completely about the enmeshment of format debates. That's why clear guidance is so important: especially when it makes the priorities clear, and points out licensing and permissions. Cheers, -Z -- Zach Beauvais | @zbeauvais (http://twitter.com/zbeauvais) [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) http://zachbeauvais.com On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 08:20, Rufus Pollock wrote: > On 10 October 2012 15:42, Zach Beauvais <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Quora sent me this question [1], which I think is of interest to the OKFN: > > > > If you were making a bill about open data for a local government, what sort > > of specifications and formats would you include in the bill? > > > > And it's starting out with a few interesting answers in situ. > > > > This subject might be a good post/paper for people to pass on to civil > > servants/local representatives with a step by step guide to transparency? > > > > > The Open Data Handbook has some basic instructions on "How to Open Up Data" > > http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/ > > Which includes: > > http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/make-data-available.html > > Which states "open, machine-readable format" as one criteria. I would > say though, that as long as you are getting machine readable (esp. not > PDF, not scans etc) one shouldn't get too obsessed about formats and > specs -- I think that is something one can come back to *once you are > actually getting data out there under an open licence** (there's a > danger o/w that one gets enmeshed in big debates over one format > versus another that stall the actual process). > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > >
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