[okfn-discuss] APIs vs bulk data, in the face of a government shutdown

Thu Oct 3 15:25:44 UTC 2013

Hi Eric,

I fully agree!

Therefore I believe distributed version control for data (~git for 
data?) is the future for (linked?) Open Data. A nice write up by ODI's 
James Smith about this can be found over here: 
http://www.theodi.org/blog/git-data-publishing. The most promising in my 
opinion is "dat" by Max Ogden: http://github.com/maxogden/dat

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 10/03/2013 05:19 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
> Hey all - since the US government just withdrew a bunch of its data 
> from the Internet as part of its shutdown, I wrote about the role of 
> the open government community in preservation, and how an API-only 
> approach makes that harder:
>
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/02/government-apis-arent-a-backup-plan/
>
> I imagine these are points most of you are familiar with, but APIs are 
> a huge focus of the US government's open data strategy, and 
> preservation hasn't been widely discussed until this shutdown.
>
> -- Eric
>
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> Developer | sunlightfoundation.com <http://sunlightfoundation.com>
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