On 10 October 2012 15:42, Zach Beauvais <[email protected]> wrote: > Quora sent me this question [1], which I think is of interest to the OKFN: > > If you were making a bill about open data for a local government, what sort > of specifications and formats would you include in the bill? > > And it's starting out with a few interesting answers in situ. > > This subject might be a good post/paper for people to pass on to civil > servants/local representatives with a step by step guide to transparency?
The Open Data Handbook has some basic instructions on "How to Open Up Data" http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/ Which includes: http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/make-data-available.html Which states "open, machine-readable format" as one criteria. I would say though, that as long as you are getting machine readable (esp. not PDF, not scans etc) one shouldn't get too obsessed about formats and specs -- I think that is something one can come back to *once you are actually getting data out there under an open licence** (there's a danger o/w that one gets enmeshed in big debates over one format versus another that stall the actual process). Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
