It looks like there are moves towards open data in Portland, Oregon! Jonathan
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sromalewski <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:45 PM Subject: [open-government-nyc:272] Portland adopts policy of publishing structured data, and other opendata notes To: Open Government NYC <[email protected]> Portland is the latest major city to officially adopt a policy of publishing "structured standardized data", among other things. See http://siliconflorist.com/2009/09/30/portland-oregon-open-city-officially-embracing-open-data-open-source/ and http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/city_of_portland_oregon_officially_backs_open_stru.php Another item on open data that came up today is a publication of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), titled "A Call to Action for State Government: Guidance for Opening the Doors to State Data". Here's the direct link: http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-DataTransparency.pdf I also noticed that the Politicker had a piece about Bloomberg's "review" of his own Mayor's management reports (http:// www.politickerny.com/5484/bloomberg-numbers). He's quoted in the piece disparaging the idea of publishing raw data. But it's disingenous. I commented (http://www.politickerny.com/5484/bloomberg- numbers#comment-33963) that you could easily change the mayor's quote at the end of the piece to 'The best way to reveal something is to publish the raw data, and that'll give watchdogs the ability to analyze it for themselves.' It's called transparency. And publishing raw data doesn't preclude publishing summary numbers and/or analysis. That's what happens in the scientific world all the time -- you publish your article and make your data available along with it -- so others can check your numbers and replicate your results. If they can't replicate them, maybe something's wrong and you need to go back and redo your analysis. Just my 2 cents. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open Government NYC" 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/open-government-nyc?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
