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By: local-data.gov.uk | W3wb.com Blogs

local-data.gov.uk | W3wb.com Blogs — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:39:54 +0000

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FutureGov » Useful links » links for 2010-01-23 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:02:12 +0000

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By: FutureGov » Features » #datagovuk launch: what I failed to say…

FutureGov » Features » #datagovuk launch: what I failed to say… — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:26:29 +0000

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By: local-data.gov.uk « Policy and Performance

local-data.gov.uk « Policy and Performance — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:18:05 +0000

By: Open Data Opens Up Gov | redcatco blog

Open Data Opens Up Gov | redcatco blog — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:46:50 +0000

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By: Introducing data.gov(.uk) | Marcus Povey

Introducing data.gov(.uk) | Marcus Povey — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:34:29 +0000

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By: Martin Green

Martin Green — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:37:36 +0000

Hi, I’ll say up front that I spent 27 years in government in a range of IT and Information & Records Management roles – including managing the intranet developments of a large department. Currently in the private sector.
I am pretty confused about this site and its purpose. I had a quick look and every dataset I checked out took me to an exisiting governemnt web site. Is Data.gov.uk just a shopfront? If so, shouldn’t we all just go to the home department and miss out this site? Also, isn’t this just like the Information Asset Register initiative?
I can see real problems of people picking up on this information and inferring what ever they want from it and being as subjective as Government departments.
Also, on cost. If agencies cannot charge for their data, then they either have to re-coup from central government (and we all pay) or they stop collecting it.
I am not all sure that this has really been thought through by the government.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:01:35 +0000

Agree with the categorisation issue – being geeky doesn’t mean it should be harder to find things I am finding it hard to see if there’s anything I’m interested in.

And you’re quite right about use – but that will presumably take time for people to find things that might be of use to them in there, just for starters.

Ben Werdmuller: As far as I am aware, if you are granted something under CC-BY, you then have that work to use under that licence. If the licensor revokes the licence on that document in the future, that doesn’t affect what you can do with the work. So you can continue to distribute the work under CC-BY, as per the terms of the licence.

By: Open data at data.gov.uk | Ben Werdmuller

Open data at data.gov.uk | Ben Werdmuller — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:02:17 +0000

[...] these are raw datasets. As Paul Clarke points out, the site only pays lip service to openness until someone comes along and turns these sets into [...]