Data on the Web Best Practices
05th Mar 2015
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05th Mar 2015
The workshops have been designed and run in two continents, the outputs (notes, data sheets and recordings) reviewed and now we are at the stage of exploring our results and establishing the best ways of measuring the data characteristics.
05th Mar 2015
“India is data-starved”, is a favourite remark of DataMeet organizer and our research partner Nisha Thompson. The UK has plenty of data, despite the fact that some of the open variety is about plankton levels in the Irish Sea in 2011.
01st Feb 2015
Today we carried out Workshop 1, identifying organisations’ problems and information that might help resolve them, with a group in Ahmedabad. Our participants came from groups addressing homelessness and housing issues and work with slum dwellers, homeless migrants and the deprived in organizational, advocacy and support ways. Our participants were very data-literate and data-conscious, perhaps even more so than our UK ones, and that brought its own challenges for our methodology, as they were already thinking about what information they might need before we’d specified the problem.
26th Jan 2015
We completed our second workshop on Wednesday (21st) as planned. It was another fascinating and very instructive event – very largely down to the energy, enthusiasm and expertise of the attendees. We learned some very important things about how useful open data could be and also became very aware of the issues in making it a realistic tool in widespread use.
22nd Jan 2015
Following on from our previous post.
The first workshop seems to have been a great success – fulfilling all of our objectives and an excellent foundation for the next one.
22nd Jan 2015
We have been busy designing our workshops for our OD4D project on USER CENTERED METHODS FOR MEASURING THE VALUE OF OPEN DATA.
22nd Jan 2015
As open data enthusiasts, it is tempting to concentrate on data and applications which we think are interesting or useful. But if the kind of open data provided by the Hampshire Hub is going to make a big difference to the local community then it has to have a much broader appeal. It needs to be providing real value to organisations who have to deal with core issues in the local community and who may have little interest in the Hampshire Hub, Open Data or even the Web. We need to see open data from their point of view.
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