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federal register embraces the web and opensource

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tom Lee of the Sunlight Foundation blogged yesterday about the new Federal Register website. The facelift was also announced a few days earlier by the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero. If you aren’t familiar with it already, the Federal Register is basically the daily newspaper of the United States Federal Government, which details [...]

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the 5 stars of open linked data

Friday, June 4, 2010

While perusing the minutes of today’s w3c egov telecon I noticed mention of Tim Berners-Lee’s Bag of Chips talk at the gov2.0 expo last week in Washington, DC. I actually enjoyed the talk not so much for the bag-of-chips example (which is good), but for the examination of Linked Data as part of a continuum [...]

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data.australia.gov.au and rdfa

Friday, January 29, 2010

In my previous blog post I was trying to demonstrate the virtues of data.gov.uk making the descriptions of their datasets available as RDFa. Just this morning I learned from Mark Birbeck that the folks down under at data.australia.gov.au did this last October! For example this page describing a dataset for public Internet locations has this [...]

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data.gov.uk and rdfa

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The recent public release of the UK Government’s data.gov.uk site got picked up by the press last week in articles at The Guardian, Prospect Magazine and elswhere. These have been supplemented by some more technical discussions at ReadWriteWeb, Open Knowledge Foundation, Talis, Jeni Tennison’s blog, and some helpful emails from Leigh Dodds (Talis) and Jonathan [...]

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