[Open-data-census] Customized Questions and Scores for Australian Census? Only wording tweaks needed.

Sat Feb 7 21:44:40 UTC 2015

Hi Waldo,

For the Australian Regional Open Data Census I do not want to change the intent of the questions or scores. I only want to tweak the wording to make them more concise. 

For example, for the “Does the data exist” question, I’d like to change the current words from,

We are looking for government data from an official resource either issued directly by the government or by a third party representing the government. 
Data offered by companies, citizen initiatives or any non-governmental organisation are not valid for submission. This means that we are looking only for what is officially published by governments. In some cases, the government will give the right to publish the data to third parties and in such cases submissions linking to third party sites are valid. It must, however, be explicitly stated on the data site that it is commissioned by the government (if the data is to be found on a company domain or on a domain of a civil society organisation or initiative, check if the organization has an agreement with the government to be the official source).

to,

Data must come from an official resource either issued directly by the government or by a third party representing the government. (Data offered by companies, citizen initiatives or any non-governmental organisation are not valid for submission.) If the government has given the right to publish the data to third parties, a submission with a link a to third party site is valid. The site must explicitly state that the data has been commissioned by the government. Check if the organization has an agreement with the government to be the official source.

I have drafted a number of similar changes that I’m happy to share.

thanks

Stephen Gates
stephen.gates at me.com <mailto:stephen.gates at me.com>

Australia’s Regional Open Data Census

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Folks,

I?m working with Emily Shaw, at the Sunlight Foundation, to put together a census of U.S. states? open data efforts. We?re going to change the evaluation criteria a bit, to work better for U.S. states, notably by increasing scores for datasets that are served over SSL (or are otherwise automatically verifiable). Changing the questions and their scores isn?t something that?s supported by Open Data Census, because OKF wants to be able to provide global comparisons, which requires constant metrics. We?re going to fork the project to make the necessary changes, though, so that's an easy problem to solve, although it?s a shame to work somewhat outside of OKF?s ecosystem.

I?m curious, though?does anybody else find that they want/need to change questions or scores? Or is it just us? :)

Best,
Waldo

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