Hi Jeni, this is excellent news! From my point of view something like this was missing for a while and so it was only a matter of time that someone would take this approach. Its good to see that you guys at ODI taking the initiative. I am very much looking fwd to see this developing over time.
Jeni, would you perhaps be up to write a short guest blog post for the OKFN's blog? That would be amazing! All best Daniel PS: also cc'ing OGD Wg list, so more people could comment. On 7 Apr 2013, at 23:06, Jeni Tennison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Some of you will already be aware that at ODI we're working on a tool for > giving people "Open Data Certificates", designed to help publishers > understand what good open data looks like, including covering > > * legal issues (licensing, ownership and privacy) > * practical issues (findability, accuracy, quality and guarantees) > * technical issues (locations, formats and trust) > * social issues (documentation, support and services) > > There's a "vision" here: > > https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate/wiki/Vision > > an alpha version of the questionnaire on line at: > > http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/certificate.html > > and some more explanatory text here: > > http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/ > > The point of the alpha version is to get input on whether the questions are > the right ones and whether the pilot/standard/exemplar is pitched correctly. > There's a bunch of stuff that *isn't* done, in particular to do with UX & > back-end support. We'll be putting that in place over the next couple of > months. > > I'm really interested in any comments that this group have. The github > project is here: > > https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate > > If you can add issues through github, or even do pull requests, that would be > great, but of course we can also discuss on this mailing list. > > Thanks, > > Jeni > -- > Jeni Tennison, Technical Director theODI.org > +44 (0) 7974 420 482 @JeniT > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
