[okfn-discuss] RawDataNow.com

[Jonathan Gray]

Brilliant! Look forward to seeing more on this!

Jonathan

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punkish at eidesis.org> wrote:
> I have up some very prelim. stats from my survey on raw v. interpreted data.
> See
>
> http://www.punkish.org/Raw-Data-vs-Interpreted-Data/
>
> I am analyzing the responses in detail, and hope to publish a paper soon
> using the results. Will share that soon as I am ready with it.
>
> Puneet.
>
> On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> I recently corresponding with Tom Heath about RawDataNow.com (which he
>> owns [1]) and he's agreed to donate it to be used for a simple site to
>> expand on what we mean by 'raw data' - and what data publishers can do
>> to put their data online in raw form.
>>
>> It would be great to have input from the list about the kinds of
>> things we could put on the site!
>>
>> Some ideas:
>>
>>  * A simple check list of the main things that we mean by 'raw data',
>> e.g. published in open, machine readable formats, bulk download
>> facility (as opposed to just available via a shiny web interface), and
>> so on. (What else could this checklist contain?)
>>  * Pointing to good examples, other relevant documents and so on.
>>  * Brief background paragraph with links to Rufus's blog post [2] and
>> Sir TimBL's TED talk [3]
>>  * Perhaps in the longer term - a short video explaining all this?
>> Intended audience would be general public, and prospective raw data
>> publishers.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> [1] http://tomheath.com/blog/2009/02/raw-data-now-dot-com/
>> [2]
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/07/give-us-the-data-raw-and-give-it-to-us-now/
>> [2] See http://www.w3.org/2009/Talks/0204-ted-tbl/#(1) and
>> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org
>>
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Jonathan Gray

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