Comments on: A quick roundup to start the new year http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/01/a-quick-roundup-to-start-the-new-year/ A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to non-personal data about the UK and its citizens Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Carl Morris http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/01/a-quick-roundup-to-start-the-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-108826 Carl Morris Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:50:40 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=282#comment-108826 If you're interested in making public data available, this recent Robert Scoble interview is interesting. <a href="http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/297359" rel="nofollow">http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/297359</a> From 20th Dec 2008 (couldn't find the Scobleizer blog post to accompany this) The interviewee is a guy called Carl Malamud who buys USA government data then does the hard slog and puts it up for free on <a href="http://public.resource.org" rel="nofollow">http://public.resource.org</a> He's a hero. If you’re interested in making public data available, this recent Robert Scoble interview is interesting.

http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/297359
From 20th Dec 2008
(couldn’t find the Scobleizer blog post to accompany this)

The interviewee is a guy called Carl Malamud who buys USA government data then does the hard slog and puts it up for free on http://public.resource.org

He’s a hero.

]]> By: Rich http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/01/a-quick-roundup-to-start-the-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-108489 Rich Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:18:45 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=282#comment-108489 There is also Dabble DB for sharing public data (if it's Creative Commons Licensed) - up to 100,000 rows (not that massive) can be stored for free and Dabble DB has a lot of nice manipulation tools (I'm not associated with them by the way, nor have I actually used their service, but I have heard good things)... http://dabbledb.com/ There is also Dabble DB for sharing public data (if it’s Creative Commons Licensed) – up to 100,000 rows (not that massive) can be stored for free and Dabble DB has a lot of nice manipulation tools (I’m not associated with them by the way, nor have I actually used their service, but I have heard good things)…

http://dabbledb.com/

]]> By: Michael Cross http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/01/a-quick-roundup-to-start-the-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-108410 Michael Cross Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:32:31 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=282#comment-108410 We should also note an interesting shift in the political wind - under the Place Matters strategy, Defra has replaced Communities and Local Government as the lead Whitehall department for geographical information. Defra is also charged with implementing the Inspire directive in the UK this year: potentially a very exciting development. We should also note an interesting shift in the political wind – under the Place Matters strategy, Defra has replaced Communities and Local Government as the lead Whitehall department for geographical information. Defra is also charged with implementing the Inspire directive in the UK this year: potentially a very exciting development.

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