6 lessons from sharing humanitarian data
Cross-posted from scraperwiki.com This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at Strata London in May 2015 called “Sharing humanitarian data at the United Nations”. You can find…
The best data opens itself on UK Gov’s Performance Platform
This is a guest post by Francis Irving (@frabcus), CEO of ScraperWiki, who has made several of the world’s first civic websites such as TheyWorkForYou and WhatDoTheyKnow. This is the…
9 models to scale open data – past, present and future
The possibilities of open data have been enthralling us for 10 years. I came to it through wanting to make Government really usable, to build sites like TheyWorkForYou. But that…
World’s first REAL commercial open data curation project!
The following post is by Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki. Can you think of an open data curation project where the people who work on it come from multiple commercial companies? In…
From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data
This is a joint blog post by Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki, and Rufus Pollock, Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. It’s being cross-posted to both blogs. Content Management Systems,…
And so corporations begin to open data…
The following post is by Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki. Now it seems almost normal that red in tooth and claw competitors, like Microsoft and Google, are both major contributors…
“Should Britain flog off the family silver to cut our national debt?”
The following post is from Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki. ‘Should Britain flog off the family silver to cut our national debt?‘ — that’s the question the UK current affairs…
Election data!
If you’d asked me back in 2005, I’d have told you that the 2010 election would be the first online election. It turned out not to be. For example, the…
Sources of data on data.gov.uk
When data.gov.uk was launched, I had a quick browse around the data, to get a feel for what was in it. Most data sets that I randomly looked at were…
Open organisations, need for two more definitions!
If starting a new, public interest, organisation, there are three obvious principles you might like to have. Finance – have all bank transactions automatically public in real time. Plus accounts.…