[open-government] Uses Cases and Requirements for the Open Data Directory – Draft Open for Comments

[Jose M. Alonso]

Hi all,

[See draft document at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12d2PXB-XcZXIgpwOwUzVgbowacTxLZt7BG9LIvQp8n4/]

As you know (and I'm among the one who suffered from this), only a few years ago it was nearly impossible to find information and examples of Open Data initiatives and their components, and make the case for going the Open Data way. Fortunately, there are currently a growing and varied number of Open Data-related resources all over the Web. But given the Web's decentralized nature, it's getting increasingly difficult to find them and to make good sense of them.

We've been putting some serious thinking at the Web Foundation on how to improve findability of Open Data-related resources and have built on the idea of facilitating access to those resources for a wide variety of audiences. As a first step towards achieving this goal, we've developed a draft of the functional and architectural requirements for the Open Data Directory platform (ODD) to support a global directory of Open Data references and related information resources, that can range from scientific papers and studies to blog posts and to applications developed on top of Open Data.

It's still very early stages but, as a first step towards the ODD, we are making public this "Use Cases and Requirements" draft in order to get comments from the wider community on the content of the document itself but also on the overall idea of the ODD. We’ve published it as a Google Document with comments turned on. Suggestions, feedback and comments are very welcome. This is a resource that would serve the community at large and, as such, your input is crucial.

The deadline for submitting comments is: April 19th, 2013.

Cheers,
Josema.


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Jose M. Alonso
Program Manager, Open Data
World Wide Web Foundation
email: josema at webfoundation.org
twitter: @josemalonso
skype: josema.alonso
http://www.webfoundation.org