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

Mon Apr 8 09:02:19 UTC 2013

Hi Jeni,

this is excellent news! From my point of view something like this was missing for a while and so it was only a matter of time that someone would take this approach. Its good to see that you guys at ODI taking the initiative. I am very much looking fwd to see this developing over time.

Jeni, would you perhaps be up to write a short guest blog post for the OKFN's blog? That would be amazing!

All best
Daniel

PS: also cc'ing OGD Wg list, so more people could comment.

On 7 Apr 2013, at 23:06, Jeni Tennison <jeni at theodi.org> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Jeni Tennison, Technical Director   theODI.org
> +44 (0) 7974 420 482                @JeniT
> 
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