By Drew Bush In case you missed either report, over the last year Open North has quietly put out an inventory of open data globally and, in a separate report, recommended baseline international standa…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: standards
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage switches to open data
The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) has worked to improve access to its BioNet database, which includes data on biodiversity, endangered species and native vegetation.
Posted in Posts from feeds Tagged with: biodiversity, BioNet, Bonnie Gardiner, CIO, environment, New South Wales, open data, standards
Better services with patterns and standards
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on the design blog about what public services might look like in a world of government as a platform. In a nutshell, platforms, open data, and shared components (the building blocks of…
The art of battling giants with open standards
‘To remain competitive, companies need to contest collectively by maintaining a sustainable ecosystem of partners and an open standards policy’ Everyone loves a good underdog story. Money Ball, Forrest Gump, Billy Elliot, The Lord of the Rings – the list…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Ben Rossi, ecosystem, Information Age, open data, Open data policy, standards
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside!
We love to make the most of the English summer – however long it lasts. When warm weather and school holidays combine, the beach is one of the best places to enjoy the sunshine. In England the seaside is cleaner…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: bathing water, beaches, Environment Agency, infographic, Jonathan Ponting, open data, Quality, sea, sewage, standards, Water
Open Data Standard For Building Permits Launches
A consortium of technology companies including Accela and Civic Insight, have released a new open data standard for buildings and permits. The standard is designed to collect and provide consistent data points city to city as builders work through the…
What’s new in Open Data July 2015
This month the Open Data team brings you another release with improved data visualization, support for standards-based metadata, public commenting on datasets and much more! We made some major harvesting improvements under the hood to improve data quality and notify…
Posted in Commercial opportunities, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with: ArcGIS, ESRI, GeoHash, metadata, open data, standards
9 Localities Commit to Open Data Standard for Construction, Building Permits
Nine localities — at both the city and county level — have committed to a set of open data building and construction permit standards, a move primed to boost insights into the housing market and propel civic app development. On…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: buildings, construction, Data standards, open data, standards
Web Foundation joins global coalition to tackle the data crisis
Today, the Web Foundation joined international governments, businesses, and civil society organisations in pledging to tackle the data crisis through the formation of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The Partnership, which will be formally launched in September at…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: African Data Consensus, Data Labs, Global Partnership on Sustainable Development, International Open Data Charter, Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS), open data, Open Data Barometer, Open Data for Developing Countries (ODDC), partnership, standards, Sustainable development, Web Foundation
From Ottawa to the world: opening our thoughts, processes, standards and data
Now that the Web Foundation team is back from the 3rd Annual International Open Data Conference in Ottawa (and recovered from our participation in eight side events and 11 conference sessions), we’ve compared notes and are ready to share some…