[TriZPUG] TriZPUG Digest, Vol 64, Issue 6

[Eric Leary]

Colin warmed every one up perfectly last month to a lot of the same
material thats in Josh's book - so I think we are ready for a presentation
that gets a little closer to the realities of implementation for coders.
Recently I've gone down the rabbit hole on RDF, RDFa, and JASON-LD in
trying to understand their future role or rejection. Are they dead, or do
they just smell funny?

Chris and James were able to point out a lot of paradoxes in principle and
in day to day trade craft that made me realize how naive I am about the
"power of open data" and "open anything."  Anything you can share on that
front I will attend raptly, especially a boondoggle.  I am usually a sucker
for those....


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Hare, Jason <Jason.Hare at raleighnc.gov>wrote:

> Thank you for sharing Josh's work. The Open Data Handbook and many of
> Josh's writing have influenced the open data strategy for the City of
> Raleigh.
>
> I will be speaking about the technical definitions of open data and how
> those are evolving. I can send notes on the transparency open government
> boondoggle if you are interested.
>
>
> Jason Hare
> Open Data Program Manager
> City of Raleigh - Information Technology
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>    1. Open Data Primer by Joshua Tauberer (Eric Leary)
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> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:41:06 -0400
> From: Eric Leary <eric.leary at gmail.com>
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> Since going to CityCamp last May my browser bookmarks and Evernote account
> have accumulated a lot of links to everything I can find related to Open
> Data.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity, before we hear from Jason Hare this
> Thursday, to recommend a link to a book published by Joshua Tauberer,
> freely available online:
>
> http://opengovdata.io
>
> This book is current, comprehensive yet concise, as well as cogent.
>
> It is dangerous in one particular that has kept me from finishing it till
> now, and therefore recommending it: It is profusely salted with links to
> the most amazing data visualization eye candy and mind searing information
> I've ever encountered.  I have lost hours of my life throbbing the knobs of
> data analysis web sites all over the internet.
>
> The role that the Python language and community have played in his odyssey
> of discovery is often explicit, or one or two links away.
>
> __________________________________
>
> I also want to assert that the separate idea of Open Government has some
> very respectable precedent in North Carolina.  Cassie Gavin of North
> Carolina Sierra Club directed me to the NC Legislative Website.  We were
> attending a Monday night session and I realized we were using the same tool
> in the gallery that the legislators were accessing on their phones below.
> This site is a vast improvement on what I experienced in 2008 when I was
> trying to learn how to hold the NC Legislature accountable ( and trying to
> use the Thomas system at the Federal level! ugh.)
>
> http://www.ncleg.net/
>
> This new (to me) site made it very tractable to follow the progress /
> refactoring of bills this summer in ways I've never been able to do before.
> My emails to representatives were far more authoritative and I started
> getting responses!
>
> Cheers
>
> Eric Leary
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