[okfn-discuss] An interesting question about open data for local government.

Wed Oct 10 18:23:43 UTC 2012

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Daniel Schuman
<dschuman at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:
> I would suggest these 10 open data principles as a good starting point:
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/
>
> In October 2007, 30 open government advocates met in Sebastopol, California
> to discuss how government could open up electronically-stored government
> data for public use. Up until that point, the federal and state governments
> had made some data available to the public, usually inconsistently and
> incompletely, which had whetted the advocates' appetites for more and better
> data. The conference, led by Carl Malamud and Tim O'Reilly and funded by a
> grant from the Sunlight Foundation, resulted in eight principles that, if
> implemented, would empower the public's use of government-held data.
>
> We have updated and expanded upon the Sebastopol list and identified ten
> principles that provide a lens to evaluate the extent to which government
> data is open and accessible to the public. The list is not exhaustive, and
> each principle exists along a continuum of openness. The principles are
> completeness, primacy, timeliness, ease of physical and electronic access,
> machine readability, non-discrimination, use of commonly owned standards,
> licensing, permanence and usage costs.
>
>
> (follow the link for more detail
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/0
> Daniel

Yes, I was going to say - the right solution is reference to a
well-developed definition of open standards, rather than specific
standards that may or may not be open at this time.

Luis