[euopendata] euopendata Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3

Thu Jul 4 17:27:47 UTC 2013

One possibility that isn't specifically mentioned but possibly is on the
radar is turning it into a meta index, pulling together existing subject -
specific indices. We've done the Open Company Data Index in conjunction
with the World Bank Institute. I think other groups have done ones for
democratic/parliamentary data.

This might be both more sustainable (being able to leverage existing
communities) and higher quality (those communities will have specialist
domain expertise), not to mention more in tune with the open distributed
nature of open data.

Chris
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> From: Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>
> Subject: [euopendata] Open Census Workshop: Call for feedback and
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> Hi all,
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> On Monday 16 September a workshop on the Open Data Census (
> http://census.okfn.org/) will take place as part of the OKCon in Geneva.
> Christian Villum (OKFN) and I will be hosting this workshop.
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> We are interested in hearing your ideas on how to best use our time
> together at this workshop. And of course if you already know if you will
> attend!
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> For now we think we can three different angles during this workshop:
> 1) improving an gathering data in the census
> 2) do development work on the census, working through the existing list of
> issues
> 3) map out how to extend the Census in terms of countries, features, as
> well as the types of data sets the Census tracks.
>
> We are very much interested in how to make the Census more useful as a tool
> for you to work with your own national government to do more and do better.
> This may mean that we need to figure out how to move the goalposts over
> time, when more countries score high points (what would currently be the
> drive for Norway at #1 to do more?)
> This may mean adding sections that look at different groups of datasets.
> The 10 we track now are sort-of the basics, the infrastructure. But if we
> want to tackle serious societal issues with open data, we probably want to
> see very different data sets being released (healthcare to mention one
> example).
>
> What would for you be the most useful thing to do, so the Open Data Census
> can be stronger tool for your Open Data work?
>
> best,
>
> Ton Zijlstra, lead editor Open Data Census
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