[okfn-discuss] Announcing Data Protocols

[Sam Leon]

Hi All,

We've just announced a project that the Open Knowledge Foundation has been
working on with a group of other organisations and individuals for some
time now.

In a nut-shell, it's a community-driven effort to develop simple,
light-weight protocols and formats for distributed and collaborative work
with data, responding to the basic challenge that the civic and open data
community is hampered by a lack of simple standards for interaction between
services and tools.

*Read more about it on the OKFN blog
here<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/17/data-protocols-community-based-light-weight-data-protocols-for-collaborative-distributed-work-with-data/>[1]
*

and

*Get Data Protocols off to a flying start, and support our application to
the Knight News
Challenge<http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/25576949597/data-protocols-rough-consensus-running-code-and>by
giving the proposal a quick thumbs up! [2]
*

All the best,

Sam

[1]
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/17/data-protocols-community-based-light-weight-data-protocols-for-collaborative-distributed-work-with-data/
[2]
http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/25576949597/data-protocols-rough-consensus-running-code-and

-- 
Sam Leon
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Twitter: @noeL_maS
Skype: samedleon
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