Paris Tech: A brief History of Open Data
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This is a pretty good article. It missed the impetus of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 that made the strongest call for opening government data, and all of the geomatics work done, but it is a nice brief overview.
http://www.paristechreview.com/2013/03/29/brief-history-open-data/ -- Tracey P. Lauriault Post Doctoral Fellow Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
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Hi Tracey,
I agree with you about the Rio Summit. I worked with an organization Bellanet that was created out of the Rio summit designed around increasing development collaboration. We had an open development program line and started sharing open data (IDML) back in 1999 with the World Bank, Donors, Foundations, and NGO's. One thing that struck me about the article was this paragraph: "In Sebastopol, Tim O’Reilly’s contribution on open government shed a new light on the relation between the open source movement and the emerging principles of open data: in his own words, we must apply the principles of open source and its working methods to public affairs." Unfortunately I'm seeing some signs of tools being created (some publicly funded) that are all about open data, but suddenly those principles of open source have been lost in the excitement to catch the next wave - open data. As mentioned in the article, I would see the principles of open content, open data, and open source to be quite harmonious, and I applaud organizations like the OKFN for being consistent with their principles of all three. Cheers, Michael On 2013-04-04, at 1:41 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote: > This is a pretty good article. It missed the impetus of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 that made the strongest call for opening government data, and all of the geomatics work done, but it is a nice brief overview. > > http://www.paristechreview.com/2013/03/29/brief-history-open-data/ > > -- > Tracey P. Lauriault > Post Doctoral Fellow > Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre > https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault > http://datalibre.ca/ > 613-234-2805 > > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Roberts -- Acclar Open Aid Data web: www.acclar.org email: [hidden email] tel: 514.802.9528 facebook: http://www.facebook.com/acclar.open twitter: @acclar skype: mroberts_112 _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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Absolutely Robert, and we also need to have open data go back to science and the work done in geospatial data infrastructures in order to build the practice of sharing in the realm of administrative/public sector data.
The OKNF does great work, but their principles lack the ideals of interoperability, accuracy, reliability, authenticy, metadata, semantics, preservation, data management and so on. And of course, once the data have been analyzed we need to find a way to mobilize the story to actually influence the decisions, data alone, will not do that. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Michael Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi Tracey, -- Tracey P. Lauriault Post Doctoral Fellow Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
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oops! Michael - Mia culpa!
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote: Absolutely Robert, and we also need to have open data go back to science and the work done in geospatial data infrastructures in order to build the practice of sharing in the realm of administrative/public sector data. -- Tracey P. Lauriault Post Doctoral Fellow Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
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Envoyé de mon iPod Le 13-04-04 à 13:59, Michael Roberts <[hidden email]> a écrit : > Hi Tracey, > > I agree with you about the Rio Summit. I worked with an > organization Bellanet that was created out of the Rio summit > designed around increasing development collaboration. We had an > open development program line and started sharing open data (IDML) > back in 1999 with the World Bank, Donors, Foundations, and NGO's. > > One thing that struck me about the article was this paragraph: > > "In Sebastopol, Tim O’Reilly’s contribution on open government > shed a new light on the relation between the open source movement an > d the emerging principles of open data: in his own words, we must ap > ply the principles of open source and its working methods to public > affairs." > > Unfortunately I'm seeing some signs of tools being created (some > publicly funded) that are all about open data, but suddenly those > principles of open source have been lost in the excitement to catch > the next wave - open data. As mentioned in the article, I would > see the principles of open content, open data, and open source to be > quite harmonious, and I applaud organizations like the OKFN for > being consistent with their principles of all three. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > On 2013-04-04, at 1:41 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> > wrote: > >> This is a pretty good article. It missed the impetus of the Rio >> Earth Summit in 1992 that made the strongest call for opening >> government data, and all of the geomatics work done, but it is a >> nice brief overview. >> >> http://www.paristechreview.com/2013/03/29/brief-history-open-data/ >> >> -- >> Tracey P. Lauriault >> Post Doctoral Fellow >> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre >> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault >> http://datalibre.ca/ >> 613-234-2805 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list >> [hidden email] >> http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss > > --- > --- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Roberts -- Acclar Open Aid Data > web: www.acclar.org > email: [hidden email] > tel: 514.802.9528 > > facebook: http://www.facebook.com/acclar.open > twitter: @acclar > skype: mroberts_112 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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The article references the late Aaron Swartz.
In response, O’Reilly Media is now allowing free downloads of their Open Government Book. http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/open-government-files-released.html ... ggt On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote: This is a pretty good article. It missed the impetus of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 that made the strongest call for opening government data, and all of the geomatics work done, but it is a nice brief overview. _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
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