‘Open Data’ Category

New Zealand Government Feed Standard 2009 (Second Consultation)

April 17th, 2009 by Matthew Ross | 8 Comments »

This proposed Government feed standard based on Atom will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.

The consultation period runs to 20th May 2009.

Posted in Developer Resources, Open Data, Standards & Compliance

Open Government, Data Reuse, and Semantic Publishing

February 24th, 2009 by Brad Taylor | 4 Comments »

Government holds a lot of information, much of it potentially very useful to a variety of non-government individuals and groups. Making this information more freely available for third-party reuse has the potential to create public value, improve efficiency, and increase government transparency. By separating information from presentation, semantic publishing provides a technical avenue by which the policy goal of open government data can be advanced.

Posted in Open Data