A tangent to this article: anonymized data & Open Data
The article says: "Open data has already attracted the interest of
businesses and government bodies in the UK and overseas. It is
defined by Sarah Parker of Lamplight Database Systems as “anonymised
data, freely available to anyone who wants to use it”."
The link to Sarah Parker is:
http://www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/openingupdatawhere indeed she says: "Open data is anonymised data, freely available
to anyone who wants to use it."
This is incorrect.
Open Data _can_ include anonymised data, but can also include data
that does identify individuals.
[Hopefully, this is done where it is appropriate/legal to identify
them in the privacy regime of the data release.]
Examples
- Election candidate databases
- Election results databases
- Cadastral data showing who owns what parcel of land. This is already
available in analog format from municipalities.
- Council meeting attendance and voting records (example: Edmonton:
https://data.edmonton.ca/City-Administration/2011-2013-Council-and-Committee-Meetings-Voting-Re/ih46-vxeq)
Unfortunately, some of the Open Data folk conflate the peculiarities
of their datasets across Open Data in general.
I was going to comment on the site, but they want registration....
-glen
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <
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