[open-government] Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi

Tue Feb 1 20:52:12 UTC 2011

Hello,

   Those are a great set of guidelines.

   Some folks (most particularly Kevin S. McArthur and Herb
Lainchbury) out here in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, also
worked on a way to score government data.  We chose to focus on
"usability" more than "openness".  Kevin, who is a developer,
particularly swayed us this way - the idea being to encourage
governments and their agencies to share data in a usable way sooner
rather than waiting until all the conditions for full openness are
met.  Give agencies credit for doing what they can, and also lowering
their score when the data is "open" but not actually "usable".

   Kevin & Herb also came up with an algorithm for weighting the
components to come up with an overall score.  We all worked on going
through & scoring the datasets we had.

   The work we did on defining usability is in a google spreadsheet
and still in a draft format.  Herb - maybe share this out publicly?

-Lisa

2011/2/1 Victoria Anderica <victoria at access-info.org>:
> Dear all,
>
> Access Info Europe welcome the publication this week of the Ten Open Data
> Guidelines drafted by TI Georgia, in consultation with Access Info Europe.
>
> These guidelines are designed as a guide to help agency heads, IT managers,
> and web developers create open data websites. They call for data to be:
>
> 1. Complete
> 2. Primary
> 3. Timely
> 4. Accessible
> 5. Machine-readable
> 6. Non-proprietary
> 7. License-free
> 8. Reviewable
> 9. Discoverable
> 10. Permanent
>
> The guidelines provide details of how these are to be achieved. They provide
> a useful structure which Access Info recommends as a model for the
> elaboration of similar principles in other countries and at an international
> level.
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact either Dereck Dohler, copied, or myself
> for more information.
>
> All the best,
>
> Victoria
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