[open-science] State of "Is it Open Data"?

Tue Jul 20 06:09:25 UTC 2010

Hi Peter,

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> This service was created by OKF volunteers who are to be congratulated.

Absolutely!

> The
> challenge now is to get a critical mass of usage on the service so that we
> get confidence in its value. The more questions that are asked the more
> convincing. Note, of course, that no-one is required to reply (unlilke
> WhatDoTheyKnow.com where the FOI law requires a reply). So please use it -
> it's up to us to make it work.

But that still does not tell me how I can contribute on open
queries... should I contact to original person who made the query, to
ask about the state of that query? Or should I, instead, repeat the
query with the provider myself? How would I link the two (identical)
queries then?

Egon

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