[ok-scotland] ScotGovCamp follow ups MEMO

[Jo Walsh]

Paola, thanks for all this. Some comments on your points below.
Midway through writing something about ScotGovCamp on blog.okfn.org too.
For me it was much more a philosophical than a productive day, though :)

On 01/08/2010 15:20, Paola Di Maio wrote:

> 1. I have picked up a few cards and had a few chats.At least 3 people I
> . I am meeting the respective ppl in the next couple of weeks and we ll
> have a starting point  for each soon

I'll look forward a lot to seeing the maps and links.

> 2. If anyone has come across any discussion which potentially represents
> a good 'real' case study that can be used

Is there a way to quickly make notes within 
https://sites.google.com/site/scottishlinkeddataswig/projects/lod-pilot-1 ?
I've had the beginnings of a conversation with Bob Kerr and Anand from 
OpenStreetmap about a health outcome reporting analysis and 
visualisation project - the data is apparently out there (though the 
health authority boundaries aren't).

> 3. subject to funding. So if anyone is aware of any funding

Depends how academic you want to be. If so, http://www.sfc.ac.uk/
who co-fund some JISC calls. I have heard that JISC are planning a 
another Linked Data call in the nearish future. So institutional 
partners - may I urge you again to talk with Ewan Klein at Informatics 
here in Edinburgh who is looking, similarly, to put together a pilot
(with obscure motivations of ontology alignment) with a clearly 
identified user community. And you've got a network at Strathclyde.

The point at which my mind starts to jam is "Business and Community 
Engagement" and "Open Innovation^WExploitation". But that's another 
conversation entirely.

> 4. local open data panel in Scotland
> A couple of people I mentioned this to said they would be interested to
> be on such panel. Any ideas how do we make it happen?

There are folks at the Improvement Service who i was surprised not to 
see at ScotGovCamp (should have emailed them, i suppose).
- Iain McKay, Cameron Easton

The IS *might* be the place with combination of power and resources to 
start this up. I met them at the last Glasgow meeting of the Association 
of Geographic Information, where there was much open data and open 
source chatter.

I would also talk to Sally Kerr at Edinburgh Council about starting this 
from the bottom up, relatively speaking. We should try to meet her 
together, if possible.

Good good, more soon i expect,


jo
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