Posts Tagged ‘opendata’

How should the public sector use Uniform Resource Identifiers?

16. Oktober 2009

“The Chief Technology Officer Council’s Information Domain have written some guidance on design considerations for how UK public sector URIs should be developed and maintained. It has been published as an interim standard , and we would greatly appreciate your feedback, so the people at Write to Reply have kindly hosted a version open for your input on which you can comment, commend or criticise.”

    Richtlinien für die Veröffentlichung von Behördendaten

    8. Oktober 2009

    Publishing Open Government Data – “To help governments open and share their data, the W3C eGov Interest Group has developed the following guidelines. These straightforward steps emphasize standards and methodologies to encourage publication of government data, allowing the public to use this data in new and innovative ways.”

      Another country gets its government data website

      6. Oktober 2009

      data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting!”

        More transparency in local government in the UK

        6. Oktober 2009

        Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information. So far we have opened up data for over 40 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.”

          NSW Public Transport Data Exchange (TDX) Program

          3. Oktober 2009

          “As part of the government’s plan to expand the available channels for accessing public transport information, this webpage has been created to provide route, timetable and stop/station/wharf information for download. The data is made available in the TransXchange format, an internationally recognised open XML standard for the exchange of public transport information.”