[euopendata] New Open Data Manual!

Tue Jun 15 12:45:30 UTC 2010

I suggest we arrange a time to talk this over with interested parties  ASAP! ;-)

Antti: I think you said you'd be willing to help do this? Could you
set up a Doodle poll? I know that from our end Mon-Wed afternoons
should generally be alright...

Adam: would be great if you were able to join call to talk about book
sprint logistics, and whether we could -- e.g. -- bootstrap with book
sprint, then see about getting funding to refine, polish, publish,
adapt and disseminate. In particular we could aim to do this in
November at an international open gov data workshop we're currently
organising. Could be a really good focus for the event!

All the best,

Jonathan

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am interested in assisting this effort. Raising awareness is an important
> effort, and I am pushing the Dutch Ministry f t Interior to set a golden
> standard / open data maturity level for gov institutions. An open data
> manual will serve as a useful thing. So count me in.
> best,
> Ton
> -------------------------------------------
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> Ton Zijlstra
>
> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
> +31-6-34489360
>
> http://zylstra.org/blog
> -------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Antti "Jogi" Poikola
> <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Sara and the EU Open Data workingroup:
>>
>> Last tuesday we had a further discussion about the "Open Data Manual" and
>> a possibility to get EU level funding for that.
>>
>> I collected the discussion into the one place:
>> http://pad.okfn.org/FFULJ4Q2QL
>>
>> So far interested contributors are:
>> * Antti Poikola
>> * Sara Wingate Gray
>> * Daniel Dietrich
>> * Jonathan Gray
>> * Arthur van der Molen (From our university we would be interested to work
>> on a localised  version of the Open Data Manual)
>> * Heiko Stoermer
>> * Jordan Hatcher
>> * Becky Hogge
>> * Simon Parrish
>> * Rufus Pollock
>>
>> I will head off for holidays for two weeks but after that I could organize
>> a conf call for those who are interested about the open data manual. The
>> idea would be to discuss the content and focus of the manual and develope a
>> proposal for EU  level partners (ISTAG and OISPG) to get funding for a
>> European "Open  Data Manual".
>>
>> Proposal could include for example:
>> ** Translation work of the Finnish manual
>> ** Funding for project coordination (editor sallary)
>> ** Monetary support for the core authors
>> ** Web platform (wiki, technical and graphical design)
>> ** Publishing and spreading the printed version of the book
>>
>> Before the conf call free free to suggest anything and everything related
>> to that on this email-list. Of course the funding is never for sure... if we
>> don't get funding then the work can be scaled down and done in voluntary
>> bases.
>>
>>
>> Description:
>> Develope a live (regularly updated) "Open Data Manual" for Governments,
>> especially in Europe in order to boost the Digital agenda and revitalize the
>> democracy in the member states.
>> The manual would be openly and collaboratively developed by the network of
>> experts around Europe (EU Open Data Working Group). The manual would be
>> build on existing work, in particular - Unlocking the Potential of Aid
>> Information (December 2009), produced by Aidinfo and the Open  Knowledge
>> Foundation, Finnish Open Data Guidebook (March 2010) and a discussion paper
>> produced by the Technical  Advisory Group for the International Aid
>> Transparency Initiative (IATI),  Technical Proposals for how IATI will be
>> implemented (March  2010).
>> A core group of authors (3-6) would be selected to carry the main
>> responsability of the manual, but the whole process would be done openly in
>> Internet by using the collaborative authoring tools like MixedInk, EtherPad
>> and GoogleDocs. The guide would be published both as printed version (pdf)
>> and wikiversion that would be updated.
>> A dream schedule would be to have the book published by ICT 2010
>> networking session 27th September ( http://pad.okfn.org/ict2010 )
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> -Jogi
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21 April 2010 18:11, Sara Wingate Gray <sara.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> We are about to start work on a new "Open Data Manual" which will be in
>>> the first instance loosely based on existing work on open data in
>>> international development.
>>> In particular the first draft will be based on 'Unlocking the Potential
>>> of Aid Information', produced by Aidinfo and the Open Knowledge Foundation,
>>> and a discussion paper produced by the Technical Advisory Group for the
>>> International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI):
>>>
>>>  http://www.unlockingaid.info/
>>>
>>>  http://www.co-ment.net/text/2385/
>>>
>>> I'm writing to ask whether any of you are interested in being co-authors
>>> of this new Open Data Manual.
>>>
>>> The initial draft is at:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASg-V-gPjO4YZGc3cnN4YzVfNDFja3F3a2djcQ&hl=en
>>>
>>> This will involve merging, cleaning up, and generalising exisiting
>>> material as well as adding in new examples and so on, more information is
>>> available at:
>>>
>>> http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/329
>>>
>>> Many thanks to Simon Parrish (in cc) for letting us use the material from
>>> Aidinfo and IATI.
>>>
>>> Anti, Daniel, Ian, Chris: Rufus mentioned that you might be interested in
>>> chipping in to this?
>>>
>>> Comments welcome!
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Sara
>>>
>>>
>>> Sara Wingate Gray
>>> --------------------------
>>> sara.gray at okfn.org
>>>
>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>> http://www.okfn.org
>>>
>>
>
>

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