[Okfn-ca] The Role of Canadian Municipal Open Data: A Multi-city Evaluation | Currie, Liam (MA Thesis)

Wed Sep 4 11:54:58 UTC 2013

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> You don't need open source to have open data.   One the most successful
> open data platforms on the planet is not built with open source software
> (Socrata).  And most of the worlds best open data is stored in a decidedly
> non-open data data store which cannot be easily replaced (Oracle), nor
> should it.
>
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This is so wrong, and on so many levels!!

You cannot have open data without open source.
Socrata is not the best platform, it is being replaced by CKAN.
Oracle is being abandonned to the favor of MariaDB and Postgres and other
open database solutions.

As a subject matter, Open Source software is a very different realm than
open data, something that people surprisingly get mixed up together and
lump into one because they share is the word "Open".    It's also something
that would be difficult to write about with any depth unless you have
actually worked  in software development;  it's perhaps the only way to
separate  the hype from reality….and there is a lot of hype to be sure.

-1 again
And wrong on so many levels again. Open data and open source are intimately
linked and should be analysed together.
You don't need an degree in software development to analyse the adoption
levels of FLOSS across different countries, levels of government and
industries.

No open data without open source!

Just my 2 cents

Immanuel

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Peder Jakobsen <pjakobsen at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2013-09-01, at 7:55 AM, Immanuel Giulea <giulea.immanuel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I would include the use of Free Libre and Open Source Software because
> open data without the right tools is not completely open data.
>
>
> You don't need open source to have open data.   One the most successful
> open data platforms on the planet is not built with open source software
> (Socrata).  And most of the worlds best open data is stored in a decidedly
> non-open data data store which cannot be easily replaced (Oracle), nor
> should it.
>
> As a subject matter, Open Source software is a very different realm than
> open data, something that people surprisingly get mixed up together and
> lump into one because they share is the word "Open".    It's also something
> that would be difficult to write about with any depth unless you have
> actually worked  in software development;  it's perhaps the only way to
> separate  the hype from reality….and there is a lot of hype to be sure.
>
> I love open data for a thesis, I would just extend it beyond the Canadian
> border, otherwise the subject matter seems too small.
>
> Peder
>
>
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