Re: The case for context in defining Open Data

Posted by Heather Morrison-2 on Feb 26, 2013; 8:22pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/The-case-for-context-in-defining-Open-Data-tp5474p5489.html

On 2013-02-26, at 12:15 PM, Russell McOrmond wrote:

I reject the idea that we should look at opening as being related "to achieve one’s goals in the context of a particular situation" given collaboration will happen between diverse (and sometimes strongly opposing) goals and be used in diverse contexts.  

Comment: I agree. Ted makes many good points in his blogpost. However,  opening "to achieve one's goals in the context of a particular situation"  means that private sales of mining data to commercial companies is an opening of data. To the commercial company, this is indeed an opening, however this is clearly not open data!

best,

Heather Morrison
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