Miscellaneous
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Open 311 initiatives and API
- Data.gov of Vivek Kundra
- San Francisco: http://datasf.org and related meeting
- New York: http://participationcamp.org and Legistlation
- DC: http://api.dc.gov/
- City of Porland, OR: ?
- SCF Open 311 API Draft and Blog
- Open 311 discussions
- Unifying API - Data Dot Gov Feedback Forum
- Sunlight Labs: About the National Data Catalog API | API Details
Organizations
- Sunlight Foundation
- See Click Fix (blog | widget) - mobile phone and web tool that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space
- Fix My Street UK
- Open Gov NYC (google group)
- Apps for Democracy (google group)
- SFSM San Francisco Survival Manual Government Tranparency Project
- Californians Aware: The Center for Public Forum Rights (website I blog)
Semantic Data
- Linked Data Design issues: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
- Putting Government Data online – Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html - Tim Berners-Lee: Presentation on TED
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
Data Visualization
- http://tables.googlelabs.com/
- http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
- http://www.swivel.com/
- http://www.gapminder.org/
Geo mapping
- http://maps.google.com/
- http://maps.yahoo.com/
- http://www.mapquest.com/
- http://www.earthmine.com/ - 3D
Open
Data Oriented Source Code
- OpenlyLocal.com (github)
- EveryBlock Code (github)
- Sunlight National Data Catalog Code (pivotal tracker)
Applications
CitySourced - mobile civic engagement tool - aimed at empowering citizens to use their smartphones to identify things such as potholes, graffiti, rubbish, snow removal and so on. (BBC article)
Articles
- 8 principles of Open Government Data
- Twitter search: #opendata
- Twitter search: #gov20
- Twitter search: #opengov
- David Eaves (who is spearheading Vancouver's open data movement) writes about why open data makes garbage collection sexy. Oh yeah! (Was picked up by O'Reilly Radar on Friday, July 3)
- Article Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data, Open Vancouver
- NYC Legislation on Open Data
- Open Municipal Geo-Data Catalog Road-map (OMGDCR)
- Jerry Mechling: Democratizing Data
- Princeton paper "Government Data and the Invisible Hand" - Researchers to government: Stop building Web sites, and just hand over your data.
- Terry Francke: A Call For California To Lead the Way on Smart Transparency
List of existing data catalogs:
- http://www.data.gov/
- http://data.octo.dc.gov/
- http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/opengovdata/ (free and open source – built on .Net and requires MS Azure)
- http://www.socrata.com/ - not open source: requires usage cost similar to cloud computing
- Sunlight Labs - Congress
- Portland's transit authority app centre
- List from Eaves (Vancouver)
Other
- Sunlight Foundation Data catalog design
- Google Fusion Tables - Data storage and visualization
- NY Times open API
- NYC Open Data Legislation
