The Open Data initiative put the spotlight on government transparency and we saw the creation of the data.gov and data.gov.uk portals.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt were instrumental in creation of the UK portal. On this side of the pond, Professor James Hendler and the Tetherless World Constellation at RPI have done work for the data.gov portal, in particular publishing linked data sets: http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki Ken North ________________ www.kncomputing.com Twitter: @knorth2 ----- Original Message ---- > From: Betty Harvey <[email protected]> > To: daniela florescu <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; XQuery Talk ML <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, October 26, 2011 4:47:19 AM > Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] [SPAM] [xml-dev] US CIO and XML (#futurefirst) > > I have read several accounts that he is very keen on XML and Drupal. Both > currently have become an integral part of many government projects. One > example is www.data.gov is a Drupal application and you will find many XML > datasets on this site. > > Betty > > > Wasn't there, but it seems that the US CIO was all about XML in open data > > government tonight. > > http://transition.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=924 > > > > #futurefirst > > > > Wonder is anyone else heard something more concrete about the topic. > > > > Best > > Dana > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > > Or unsubscribe: [email protected] > > subscribe: [email protected] > > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > > > > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ > Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 > Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | > [email protected] | Washington,DC XML Users Grp > URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ > Member of XML Guild (www.xmlguild.org) > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
