[euopendata] New Open Data Manual!

Wed Jun 16 08:58:24 UTC 2010

Hi all Open Data manual interested people,

Please add your name here: http://pad.okfn.org/FFULJ4Q2QL

I'm touring by bike next two weeks, and not so much in internet, but 
after that I will coordinate the effort more. Meanwhile feel free to add 
pointers to resources and your ideas to the Pad.

I met David Osimo yesterday here in Brussels and he is with us as well.

-Jogi

Ton Zijlstra 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 <mailto:ton at tonzijlstra.eu>
> +31-6-34489360
> 
> http://zylstra.org/blog
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> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Antti "Jogi" Poikola 
> <antti.poikola at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <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 <mailto:sara.gray at okfn.org>
> 
>         The Open Knowledge Foundation
>         http://www.okfn.org
> 
> 
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