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

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

accruracy, reliability, authenticity, lineage - metadata and the artistry
and science of preservation aka archiving.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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