05 June 2010
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Opening up government finances
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Opening up government finances
Opening up government finances
June 3rd, 2010
The following guest post is from Chris Taggart of OpenlyLocal, who advises the Where Does My Money Go? project on local spending data, and is a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on Open Government Data.
With a string of announcements this week and the COINS database (the UK’s biggest source of information on public spending) about to be released tomorrow, it’s an exciting time for open data in the UK at the moment! When I first played around with the idea of opening up the basics of local government data (which turned into OpenlyLocal), I never imagined I was entering an area that little more than a year later would become such an exciting area, combining two of the hottest online trends, open government data and local data.
But still, there’s a hell of a long way to go, and one of the areas where there’s furthest to travel, and most to do is finance, specifically where the money’s being spent, who it’s being spent with, and also where it comes from. As the old journo saw goes: follow the money.
I had my first taste of the problems when I took a pretty much unused (and locked) spreadsheet, the 2006-07 Local Spending Report, and over the course of a weekend,unlocked it cleaned it up, imported it into a database and allowed people to do what the spreadsheet didn’t — make comparisons on local spending across councils and in areas.
The FRBR Blog: Blog Archive � Last week in FRBR #26
The FRBR Blog: Blog Archive � Last week in FRBR #26: "VuFind and “other editions” with xISBN
Lorcan Dempsey’s A web-siting at Yale: other editions and xISBN points out that at Yale’s VuFind catalogue they’re using VuFind’s ability to call on xISBN to generate a list of other editions of a given book, or, more generally, other Manifestations of a given Work. Example: The Hobbit."
Lorcan Dempsey’s A web-siting at Yale: other editions and xISBN points out that at Yale’s VuFind catalogue they’re using VuFind’s ability to call on xISBN to generate a list of other editions of a given book, or, more generally, other Manifestations of a given Work. Example: The Hobbit."
Congratulations to the MW2010 Best of the Web Winners! | conference.archimuse.com
Congratulations to the MW2010 Best of the Web Winners! | conference.archimuse.com
Congratulations to the following sites, selected as the Best of the Web at Museums and the Web 2010.
The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation � Digitisation
The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation � Digitisation: "The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation
The Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (SABIP) have published a report this week entitled “The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research” .
The report undertakes a critical overview of the theoretical and empirical economic literature on copyright and unauthorised copying.
This report highlights two issues which are in particular need of further research in order to inform copyright policy:
How does digital copying affect the supply of copyright works?
Does the copyright system entail obstacles to desirable aspects of technological transition?"
The Strategic Advisory Board on Intellectual Property (SABIP) have published a report this week entitled “The Economics of Copyright and Digitisation: A Report on the Literature and the Need for Further Research” .
The report undertakes a critical overview of the theoretical and empirical economic literature on copyright and unauthorised copying.
This report highlights two issues which are in particular need of further research in order to inform copyright policy:
How does digital copying affect the supply of copyright works?
Does the copyright system entail obstacles to desirable aspects of technological transition?"
The Policy and Standards Division’s Progress on
the Recommendations made in
“Library of Congress Subject Headings
Pre- vs. Post-Coordination and Related Issues”
Executive Summary
Report for Beacher Wiggins, ABA Director
Prepared by the Policy and Standards Division
May 2, 2010
In 2006 the Library of Congress’ Director of Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) requested a review of the pros and cons of pre- versus post-coordination of Library of Congress Subject Headings. The Cataloging Policy and Support Office (now the Policy and Standards Division) responded in 2007 with the report entitled, “Library of Congress Subject Headings: Pre- vs. Post-Coordination and Related Issues” (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/pre_vs_post.pdf).
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