Warwickshire County Council launch new open data site!
Warwickshire County Council pinged us earlier this week to let us know about the launch of their new open data site! The site hosts a range of data sets –…
Russian translation of the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD)
We’ve just added a Russian translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Maxim Dubinin. http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/russkiy If you’d like to translate the Definition into another language, or if you’ve already…
Norwegian translation of the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD)
We are pleased to now have a Norwegian translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Svein-Magnus Sørensen, Harald Groven and Olav Anders Øvrebø. http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/norsk_bokmaal/ If you’d like to translate…
The COINS database — what we know and how we know it
The following post is from Lisa Evans, who is doing research on UK public finance data sources as part of our Where Does My Money Go? project. Freedom of information:…
Chinese translation of the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD)
We’ve just added a Chinese translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Mao, Ching-Chen at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/chinese If you’d like to translate the Definition into…
The Hunt For COINS
I've been investigating data for use in the project 'Where Does My Money Go'. One of the first reports we looked at was the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA) -- it looks like this: http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/prototype/ So an obvious question is where does the data in the PESA report come from, I mean, where is the PESA data stored?
Discovering Where My Money Goes I: PESA
This is the first of a series of post looking at the data challenges for the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Where Does My Money Go project, for which I’m helping to…