The first step is to get the data out in a way that is at least documented and machine readable, even if it's in excel or text files. Between the external ecosystem that wants to get and distribute and analyze data and the internal IT folks who want to strip all the effort out of disclosure, I'm pretty sure new standards will emerge and the "plaxos" of the world will bridge islands.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Kaliya * <[email protected]> wrote: > If you watch the CTO/CIO webcast - they mention my "question" which was > more a comment. > > they I think very carefully don't use the word "open standard" in the OGD > > I am sure many kinds of data that agencies are going to release don't have > "standard" ways to output them. > > The challenge I see with agencies implementing open format data under OGD > is that they will each invient their own way to create an "open format" to > comply with teh regulation but will not actually innovate open standards > across similar data sets. > > So Atom is an open standard - my "unique" way of doing something similar in > a machine readable format is not. > > -Kaliya > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Elias Bizannes > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I tried earlier this year to define it and put it in the too hard basket. >> Now, the US CIO and CTO have a defininition that very succincly defined it: >> >> "An open format is one that is platform independent, machine readable, and >> made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the >> re-use of that information. " >> >> Great article on Open government: http://bit.ly/6i9del >> >> Can we get an endorsement of the definition? I think it's an important one >> to support. >> >> Elias Bizannes >> http://eliasbizannes.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "DataPortability.Public.General" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public?hl=en >> For additional information, please visit: >> http://www.dataportability.org/ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "DataPortability.Public.General" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public?hl=en > For additional information, please visit: > http://www.dataportability.org/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataPortability.Public.General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public?hl=en For additional information, please visit: http://www.dataportability.org/
