[ckan-discuss] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Announcing Data Protocols

Tue Jul 17 19:23:41 BST 2012

I posted up an announce about the Data Protocols project today on
http://blog.okfn.org/

<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/17/data-protocols-community-based-light-weight-data-protocols-for-collaborative-distributed-work-with-data/>

More info in the forwarded email below.

Rufus

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org>
Date: 17 July 2012 16:46
Subject: [okfn-discuss] Announcing Data Protocols
To: okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>

Hi All,

We've just announced a project that the Open Knowledge Foundation has
been working on with a group of other organisations and individuals
for some time now.

In a nut-shell, it's a community-driven effort to develop simple,
light-weight protocols and formats for distributed and collaborative
work with data, responding to the basic challenge that the civic and
open data community is hampered by a lack of simple standards for
interaction between services and tools.

Read more about it on the OKFN blog here [1]

and

Get Data Protocols off to a flying start, and support our application
to the Knight News Challenge by giving the proposal a quick thumbs up!
[2]

All the best,

Sam

[1] http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/17/data-protocols-community-based-light-weight-data-protocols-for-collaborative-distributed-work-with-data/
[2] http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/25576949597/data-protocols-rough-consensus-running-code-and