[okfn-discuss] Fwd: Putting Government Data online (by TimBL)

Mon Jun 29 12:25:40 UTC 2009

2009/6/24 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> This is interesting!
>
>  http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData

Yes, though not really sure about emphasis on RDF/LOD. I'm not at all
against RDF but I don't see that conversion to RDF is a necessity for
getting government data "out there" -- give it to us raw, give it to
us now ...

Rufus

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jose M. Alonso <josema at w3.org>
> Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM
> Subject: Putting Government Data online (by TimBL)
> To: eGov IG <public-egov-ig at w3.org>
>
>
> All,
>
> Tim Berners-Lee just made public a new document in his "Design Issues"
> series called "Putting Government Data online"
>
>  http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData
>
> This is _very_ related to our Open Government Data discussions and
> you'll find there some similarities to the draft data.gov.* memo we've
> been discussing recently.
>
> Best,
> Jose.
>
> --
> Jose M. Alonso <josema at w3.org>    W3C/CTIC
> eGovernment Lead                  http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/