Free Our Data Campaing UK + New Guardian Article
Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on
Mar 23, 2006; 12:12pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Free-Our-Data-Campaing-UK-New-Guardian-Article-tp368.html
Free our data
Ordnance Survey challenged to open up
The inventor of the world wide web wants access to Ordnance Survey
data - and the freedom to manipulate it as he sees fit
http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,1737011,00.html
SA Mathieson and Michael Cross
Thursday March 23, 2006
The Guardian
Another excellent article on the topic of freeing ordinance survey
data. The article refers to Berners-Lee speech given at Oxford last
week, where he argued that to develop the semantic web one needs data!
The article can be found here:
See the new Free our Data Campaing for the UK:
Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/
Free Our Data: the blog
A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to data
about the UK and its citizens
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/index.php