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CapCamp2012_Open_Data_Standards

Page history last edited by Paul Fernhout 11 years, 4 months ago

This session was led by John Cody, lawyer at the Office of Information Technology Services, who has been involved with openness issues for several years. One of the concerns was that things should not be built in an inefficient way without taking in account open standards.

One issue discussed was New Hampshire's new law relating to procurement of IT systems and open standards.

Pat Lynch from the NYS Department of Health described her group's success with using Socrata, a now open-source software system to deliver better citizen access to information, modernize online service delivery and improve internal efficiencies.

Paul Fernhout mentioned the challenges of maintaining a non-profit website with a version history. He mentioned William Kent's book Data and Reality in the context of understanding challenges at the semantic level of working with multiple changing datasets. He also talked near the end about how Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the URL is a powerful idea whose significance is still percolating through out society (along with the URI and URN). He joked that in these days, if an application, even on a desktop, can't access data via a URI, then "it is broken". The Magnet URI scheme is one example of an attempt at a standard for referencing distributed data. At the end he mentioned the need for considering standard for data integrity like Git has with a chain of checksums.