[okfn-discuss] Alpha ODI Open Data Certificates: comments please!

Sun Apr 7 21:06:45 UTC 2013

Hi,

Some of you will already be aware that at ODI we're working on a tool for giving people "Open Data Certificates", designed to help publishers understand what good open data looks like, including covering

  * legal issues (licensing, ownership and privacy)
  * practical issues (findability, accuracy, quality and guarantees)
  * technical issues (locations, formats and trust)
  * social issues (documentation, support and services)

There's a "vision" here:

  https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate/wiki/Vision

an alpha version of the questionnaire on line at:

  http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/certificate.html

and some more explanatory text here:

  http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/

The point of the alpha version is to get input on whether the questions are the right ones and whether the pilot/standard/exemplar is pitched correctly. There's a bunch of stuff that *isn't* done, in particular to do with UX & back-end support. We'll be putting that in place over the next couple of months.

I'm really interested in any comments that this group have. The github project is here:

  https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate

If you can add issues through github, or even do pull requests, that would be great, but of course we can also discuss on this mailing list.

Thanks,

Jeni
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Jeni Tennison, Technical Director   theODI.org
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