Free Our Data: Articles

A resource with links to useful articles. (This may be too like the Links page to be useful - that should emerge in time.)

Peter Weiss's "Borders in Cyberspace" paper about the relative benefits of closed and open access to public data. Here's the HTML version; here, the PDF, here.
April 4: Locus responds to the Free Our Data campaign. Locus is a trade association "established by a group of private sector companies to raise awareness and promote a healthy competitive market in the provision and use of public sector information".
Guardian, March 30: Why a £5m mapping project had to double up on data: explaining why Norwich Union re-mapped the UK when it wanted to create a flood risk map
Two Guardian articles, March 23:
- Ordnance Survey challenged to open up
  The inventor of the world wide web wants access to Ordnance Survey data - and the freedom to manipulate it as he sees fit.
- Government organisations under pressure to make money
  The focus of the campaign this past week: which companies to tackle and what data do they hold?
Guardian, March 16: What price information?
The official response from the Ordnance Survey to "Give us back our crown jewels".
Guardian, March 9: Give us back our crown jewels by Charles Arthur and Michael Cross (Guardian). The first article in the campaign. (It attracted quite a lot of attention, as you can see by this Google search.)
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