Note that the UK's Government Digital Service also recently published their guidelines on choosing appropriate formats in which government service providers also should publish their data which also underscores things like where PDFs are appropriate and where data should be released in e.g. CSV.
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design-and-content/choosing-appropriate-formats.html Really good to see that this is really getting traction! Lucy On 13 May 2013 10:50, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it's really good :-) There was a summary post up on Friday: > > > http://blog.okfn.org/2013/05/10/government-data-open-and-machine-readable-by-default-announces-president-obama/ > > And we'll be following up with some further analysis. If folks have > any thoughts very interested to hear them! > > Rufus > > On 13 May 2013 10:12, Smarthart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > MAKING OPEN AND MACHINE READABLE THE NEW DEFAULT FOR GOVERNMENT > INFORMATION > > > > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/09/executive-order-making-open-and-machine-readable-new-default-government- > > > > Lots of good stuff in here, like: > > > > (b) Agencies shall implement the requirements of the Open Data Policy and > > shall adhere to the deadlines for specific actions specified therein. > When > > implementing the Open Data Policy, agencies shall incorporate a full > > analysis of privacy, confidentiality, and security risks into each stage > of > > the information lifecycle to identify information that should not be > > released. These review processes should be overseen by the senior agency > > official for privacy. It is vital that agencies not release information > if > > doing so would violate any law or policy, or jeopardize privacy, > > confidentiality, or national security. > > > > > > Very Kewl.. > > > > > > - Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > > okfn-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > > > > > -- > Rufus Pollock > > Founder and Co-Director | skype: rufuspollock | @rufuspollock > > The Open Knowledge Foundation > > Empowering through Open Knowledge > > http://okfn.org/ | @okfn | OKF on Facebook | Blog | Newsletter > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > -- ** *Lucy Chambers* Project Coordinator | skype: lucyfediachambers | tel: +44 7909 330731 | @lucyfedia <http://twitter.com/lucyfedia> The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> Empowering through Open Knowledge http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> | Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> OpenSpending | http://openspending.org/ | @openspending<http://twitter.com/openspending>|Tracking every government financial transaction across the world School of Data | http://schoolofdata.org | @schoolofdata<http://twitter.com/schoolofdata>| Evidence is Power
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