[CivicAccess-discuss] open data needing different processes for collecting and storing data

[Michael Lenczner]

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/truly-open-data.html

"From talking to government folks and scientists, it's become obvious
that serious problems exist in some datasets. Sometimes corners were
cut in gathering the data, or there's a poor chain of provenance for
the data so it's impossible to figure out what's trustworthy and
what's not. Sometimes the dataset is delivered as a tarball, then
immediately forks as all the users add their new records to their own
copy and don't share the additions. Sometimes the dataset is delivered
as a tarball but nobody has provided a way for users to collaborate
even if they want to. So lately I've been asking myself: What if we
applied the best thinking and practices from open source to open data?
What if we ran an open data project like an open source project? What
would this look like?"

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