Truly Open Data - O'Reilly Radar

[archerships]

From talking to government folks and scientists, it's become obvious that serious problems exist in some datasets. Sometimes corners were cut in gathering the data, or there's a poor chain of provenance for the data so it's impossible to figure out what's trustworthy and what's not. Sometimes the dataset is delivered as a tarball, then immediately forks as all the users add their new records to their own copy and don't share the additions. Sometimes the dataset is delivered as a tarball but nobody has provided a way for users to collaborate even if they want to.

So lately I've been asking myself: What if we applied the best thinking and practices from open source to open data? What if we ran an open data project like an open source project? What would this look like?

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Via Jessy Cowan-Sharp

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Comments

[selfishgene.livejournal.com]

Interesting.
A nitpick : the link text starting '?utm ...' is irrelevant and slightly confusing.