[open-government] [okfn-discuss] Alpha ODI Open Data Certificates: comments please!

Mon Apr 8 10:34:36 UTC 2013

Hi Daniel,

Absolutely, I'd be very glad to do a short piece for OKFN's blog. Let's discuss offlist.

Jeni

On 8 Apr 2013, at 10:02, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Jeni,
> 
> this is excellent news! From my point of view something like this was missing for a while and so it was only a matter of time that someone would take this approach. Its good to see that you guys at ODI taking the initiative. I am very much looking fwd to see this developing over time.
> 
> Jeni, would you perhaps be up to write a short guest blog post for the OKFN's blog? That would be amazing!
> 
> All best
> Daniel
> 
> 
> PS: also cc'ing OGD Wg list, so more people could comment.
> 
> 
> On 7 Apr 2013, at 23:06, Jeni Tennison <jeni at theodi.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Some of you will already be aware that at ODI we're working on a tool for giving people "Open Data Certificates", designed to help publishers understand what good open data looks like, including covering
>> 
>> * legal issues (licensing, ownership and privacy)
>> * practical issues (findability, accuracy, quality and guarantees)
>> * technical issues (locations, formats and trust)
>> * social issues (documentation, support and services)
>> 
>> There's a "vision" here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate/wiki/Vision
>> 
>> an alpha version of the questionnaire on line at:
>> 
>> http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/certificate.html
>> 
>> and some more explanatory text here:
>> 
>> http://theodi.github.io/open-data-certificate/
>> 
>> The point of the alpha version is to get input on whether the questions are the right ones and whether the pilot/standard/exemplar is pitched correctly. There's a bunch of stuff that *isn't* done, in particular to do with UX & back-end support. We'll be putting that in place over the next couple of months.
>> 
>> I'm really interested in any comments that this group have. The github project is here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-certificate
>> 
>> If you can add issues through github, or even do pull requests, that would be great, but of course we can also discuss on this mailing list.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jeni
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>> 
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