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Open Data White Paper links

The White Paper announcement and relaunch of data.gov.uk on 28th June marked significant progress towards making open data the default for public sector information, with detailed policy commitments and a redesigned data.gov.uk site. However, campaigners were disappointed by the continuing status quo of trading funds charging for core reference data. Quick read: Guardian  Inside the Open Data […]

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Open Data definitions

Open Data definitionsThe Open Definition sets out principles to define ‘openness’ in relation to content and data and can be summed up in the statement that:“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.” […]

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West Midlands Open Data User Group

West Midlands Open Data User Group promotes the release and use of open data.   Membership is intended for open data publishers and users such as   public service providers from government public service providers from social enterprises and the voluntary sector public service providers from the private sector public service users academic researchers independent […]

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Soupmix for 2012-05-12

.@daeaves response to Tom Slee’s Open data movement is a joke http://t.co/8xcz0Y1k #open data # Jo Bates open government data paper. It’s political http://t.co/Tjg6l3Td #opendata # RT @tom_watson: Open Data Movement Redux: Tribes and Contradictions: http://t.co/nD6OOfom #

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Soupmix for 2012-05-06

Open data and journalism: How and why journalists should be digging for stories http://t.co/UmCQdW1t #journalism (via @journalismnews) # The Hackday Manifesto #devcsi #dev8d #devxs http://t.co/v3Q0WrPx (via @josswinn) # Mobile Security for Journalists – The Essential SaferMobile Survival Guide http://t.co/y037IyuD # World Press Freedom: how technology is expanding the definition of “journalist” http://t.co/G0FyOAT6 #WPFD (via @NiemanLab) […]

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