Participation and Open Data
Lee Bryant presentation on open data + participation.

Three Laws of Open Data (International Edition)
When I published the Three Laws of Open Data post back on September 30, 2009 I was pleasantly surprised by how much traffic it garnered. In addition, a number of people emailed me positive feedback about the post (including some who read a revised...

KoopTech Blog» Web 2.0 für Behördendaten [schulzki-haddouti]
Dass Nutzer die Daten aber auch beliebig zusammenstellen und korrelieren können, zeigt die großartige Website DataMasher, die im Rahmen einer Gov-2.0-Challenge “Apps for America” entstanden ist. Das ist Gov 2.0 in Reinform.Die Website...

Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!
Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!

SSRN-Government Data and the Invisible Hand by David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, Edward Felten
Article arguing gov should focus more on publishing raw data and info than on building informative websites.

Nathan Torkington - ALGIM 2009 - Gov 2.0 on Vimeo
Nat's presentation that covers governments exposing data at ALGIM 2009. Many of the same considerations will apply to any organisation wanting to expose data. Allows covers some benefits of Sharing, Gov 2.0 concepts, Web Services vs Web Sites,...

Government Information Licensing Framework - Home
these guys use our open data poster

Build your stuff with our stuff! - Lichfield District Council
We're always looking for new ways of making it as easy as possible for developers and website owners to access data held by Lichfield District Council in ways that they want - allowing you to remix, mashup and share data easily. Here's a list...

Put in your postcode, out comes the data | Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt - Times Online
Government data is a valuable resource that we have already paid for. We are not talking about personal data but data that tells us, for example, about the amount and type of traffic on our roads, where the accidents are, how much is spent on areas where...

Adventures in SPARQL part 2 now with added KML
example SPARQL queries over the edubase which now has lat and long eastings and northings

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open data on cities: an international round up
several UK cities open data examples

Välkommen till opengov.se! - opengov.se
opengov Sweden

The Stimulus Map: Open Data and enhancing our democracy
The subject of the distribution of stimulus monies has been generating a fair amount of interest. Indeed, the Globe published this piece and the Halifax Chronicle-Herald published this piece analyzing the spending. But something more interesting is also...

The Malmödeclaration as tag cloud : Noise Society
wordle of the declaration on eGov in Malmo

data.govt.nz - New Zealand government data online » Data.govt.nz
data.govt.nz is a directory of New Zealand government datasets.

Open Science and Its Impact
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the U.K. has released a report, Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential, which addresses "data-intensive open science," its potential impact on research practice, and...

Making more information computable - convert tabular information in web pages into XML - Joubert's posterous
lifting table data out of a webpage and making it computable

Kml2Shp Online
converting kml to shape and back

How to Publish Linked Data on the Web
Tom Heath, The Knowledge Media Institute, The Open UniversityMichael Hausenblas, DERI Galway, Nat'l University of Ireland, GalwayChris Bizer, Free UniversityRichard Cyganiak, DERI Galway, National University of Ireland, GalwayOlaf Hartig, Dept...

Why Geeks (like me) Promote Transparency (Idealware)
Peter Campbell pushes the recent data transparency conversations further. What say we make this conversation real at a certain conference coming up in Atlanta next year? Specifically, the Unconference on Open Data?

CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - Groups - lod
A group for Linking Open Data datasets.

Developers are great but… « Emma Mulqueeny
Take for example the fact that two of the apps developed independently from each other at Young Rewired State were for finding safe routes to school. This tells us more than just: oh there’s a clever app, let’s talk to the IT people and data people...