[euopendata] New Open Data Manual!

Wed Jun 16 09:05:17 UTC 2010

Hi,

I'm personally travelling next two weeks by bike. Next monday 21.6.  I'm 
in Copenhagen without any pre-set program, so that is one option for me, 
but I have so limited internet-access that I wouldn't like to coordinate 
the call.

PS: I will meet Michael Friis (Denmark) while in Copenhagen... Michael 
have you followed this "Open data manual" discussion?

Jonathan Gray wrote:
> 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
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Interdependent Thoughts
>> 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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