I have up some very prelim. stats from my survey on raw v. interpreted data. See
http://www.punkish.org/Raw-Data-vs-Interpreted-Data/ I am analyzing the responses in detail, and hope to publish a paper soon using the results. Will share that soon as I am ready with it. Puneet. On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: > I recently corresponding with Tom Heath about RawDataNow.com (which he > owns [1]) and he's agreed to donate it to be used for a simple site to > expand on what we mean by 'raw data' - and what data publishers can do > to put their data online in raw form. > > It would be great to have input from the list about the kinds of > things we could put on the site! > > Some ideas: > > * A simple check list of the main things that we mean by 'raw data', > e.g. published in open, machine readable formats, bulk download > facility (as opposed to just available via a shiny web interface), and > so on. (What else could this checklist contain?) > * Pointing to good examples, other relevant documents and so on. > * Brief background paragraph with links to Rufus's blog post [2] and > Sir TimBL's TED talk [3] > * Perhaps in the longer term - a short video explaining all this? > Intended audience would be general public, and prospective raw data > publishers. > > Any thoughts? > > [1] http://tomheath.com/blog/2009/02/raw-data-now-dot-com/ > [2] > http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/07/give-us-the-data-raw-and-give-it-to-us-now/ > [2] See http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/#(1) and > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ > tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://www.okfn.org > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
