Brilliant! Look forward to seeing more on this! Jonathan
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ======================================================================= > > -- 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
