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Reorganising this blog: different category suggestions

Speaking to someone this morning about the Free Our Data campaign, I found that I was constantly saying “Oh, we wrote about X on the blog…” (where X could be the Postcode Address File, or the proposal to charge for changes in the Land Registry, or whatever) – but then realised it’s very hard to find anything by that label here. Search is nice, but it’s not enough.

Therefore I’m proposing to update the “categories” here into a number of new ones, principally with the names of organisations – eg Ordnance Survey, Post Office, Hydrographic Office, Land Registry – that would be affected or included in the post.

Your suggestions welcome for how, for example, we should deal with the “Cambridge report” or the Trading Funds review. And for any other organisational change to the categorisation on this blog for posts that would make your use of it easier.

2 Responses to “Reorganising this blog: different category suggestions”

  1. Phil Green Says:

    Hi, I’ve been advocating something along the lines of ‘free our local climate change data’
    http://sca21.wikia.com/wiki/Open_national_and_local_carbon_accounts

    I posted to this blog, but probably quite some time ago. So any chance labels used could be simpler (type of data) eg climate change local data. maps, etc – so more easily understood by jo public?

  2. Duncan Fenton Says:

    One hopes you do mean categories, not folders by another name. Specifically one article should be allowed to be tagged with multiple categories. I believe this will answer your question about e.g. The Cambridge Report.

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