[Bradford] Fwd: Leeds Data Thing

[Andrew Back]

On 3 February 2013 10:35, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> OPEN DATA
> Requesting Government Data: The next step in open use of government data is
> a form on data.gov.uk to enable anyone who has an idea for a dataset which
> is not yet accessible to make a request and indicate the benefits of
> releasing the data. Possible options given on the form for use of data are
> community work or research, as well as business or personal use. Open Data
> User Group's latest article at
> http://data.gov.uk/blog/odugs‐call‐for‐open‐data‐requests, form at
> http://data.gov.uk/node/add/data‐request.

I'd just add that sources are by no means limited to authorities and
official data hierarchies. There are also huge opportunities for
grassroots and crowd-sourced open data, e.g. through Internet of
Things applications such as the Japanese radiation map and Air Quality
Egg:

  http://japan.failedrobot.com/

  http://airqualityegg.com/

In particular where there may be reason to not trust official data...

Although the issues surrounding copyright (e.g. who owns environment
data collected by a device in a shared space), privacy and licensing
can quickly get quite thorny!

Cheers,

Andrew

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