[open-government] Cost/Benefit Studies of Open-Data & initiatives & lists

Tue Aug 17 16:37:49 UTC 2010

+1.

I would be in favour of a very small set of tags, easy to remember and
easy to use, rather than a bigger set of tags. Perhaps we can
brainstorm here:

http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/tags

We should definitely make sure we're aware of what tags are already
being used (opendata, gov20, ...), and how they are being used.

But I think this area is also still small enough to maintain a
comprehensive set of lists (e.g. of local initiatives, competitions
and catalogues). If we get this rolling soon it would be great. I'll
wait for Daniel to take a lead in getting several of these set up! ;-)

2010/8/16 Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>:
> All;
>
> While a bunch of lists are being compiled, and coordinated.  It would also
> be great if we could tag web urls in my delicious in a way that can be
> mutually beneficial.
>
> For instance, civicaccess has been tracking all sorts of documents,
> initiatives, etc. for a couple of years using the following tags:
>
> coacid
> civicaccess
>
> It is easier if the tags are really distinctive like these for instance:
>
> opendata_cbstudies (?)
> opendata_iniatives (for city of ottawa, London, Montreal, etc.)
> opendata_licenses (for geoconnections unrestricted user license, etc.)
> opendata_reports (NSF chapters, etc.)
>
>
> And then people can add whatever other tags:
> okf opendata_cbstudies
> odmtl opendata_cbstudies
> civicaccess opendata_cbstudies
> odottawa opendata_cbstudies
>
> etc.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> As a person who is currently maintaining the list of those for and against
> the census changes in canada (datalibre.ca), i can tell you, it gets insane
> to manage a penultimate list with many contributors, but it is relatively
> easy, if we all do it, and remind ourselves to do it, to tag content we find
> and can later all fish through.
>
> If we agree to some tags, on one some insomniac night, i will go back to the
> civicaccess coacid tagged material and add new ones to make searching
> easier.
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> --
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>
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