[open-government] 1. It's not Open Data, so stop calling it that...

Rufus Pollock rufus.pollock at okfn.org
Thu Jul 29 08:16:33 UTC 2010


On 28 July 2010 17:14, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> This was one of the key objectives of the November Open Government
> Data Camp. But would probably be useful to have a thread on that here
> before the event.
>
> I guess the two main bits were:
>
>  1. Legally open (i.e. compliant with opendefinition.org)
>  2. Technically open (i.e. released in machine readable format, if applicable)
>
> What do people think?

I agree but would point out that item (2) is already in
opendefinition.org since items 1 (acces) and 4 (absence of
technological restriction) in the open definition cover this.

Rufus




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