Comments on: Mashups in government http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/ Liz Azyan's Good Engagement Online Research Blog Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Darlington http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 John Darlington Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:33:08 +0000 http://www.lgeoresearch.com/?p=695#comment-1360 Hi, I thought you might be interested in Open PSI, a collaboration between the University of Southampton and the UK government, lead by the National Archive, to trial a new form of community provisioned information service. we are trying to spark interaction between government information providers, academic researchers and information intermediaries, specifically to bridge the gap between those researchers who may not have all the technical skills or data knowledge to answer important research questions. We are exposing UK government data in the Semantic Web standards, RDF. We have SPARQL end point so data mashers can issue via query requests. This is a form of open API that allows mashups to be created quite quickly. John. Hi,

I thought you might be interested in Open PSI, a collaboration between the University of Southampton and the UK government, lead by the National Archive, to trial a new form of community provisioned information service.

we are trying to spark interaction between government
information providers, academic researchers and information intermediaries, specifically to bridge the gap between those researchers who may not have all the technical skills or data knowledge to answer important research questions.

We are exposing UK government data in the Semantic Web standards, RDF. We have SPARQL end point so data mashers can issue via query requests. This is a form of open API that allows mashups to be created quite quickly.

John.

]]> By: Mashing Up Government the RSS Way: Raw Materials « OUseful.Info, the blog… http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 Mashing Up Government the RSS Way: Raw Materials « OUseful.Info, the blog… Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:29:01 +0000 http://www.lgeoresearch.com/?p=695#comment-1035 [...] PS this looks like an interesting related collection of links: Mashups in government. [...] [...] PS this looks like an interesting related collection of links: Mashups in government. [...]

]]> By: Noel http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Noel Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:24:49 +0000 http://www.lgeoresearch.com/?p=695#comment-74 That would deserve a programme of research work in itself, but I think visualising what people mash up information with could give us a better idea on some of the links between those issues, but also where collaboration should be happening on the ground btw councils & community groups (like with your idea for a homeless mashup). That would deserve a programme of research work in itself, but I think visualising what people mash up information with could give us a better idea on some of the links between those issues, but also where collaboration should be happening on the ground btw councils & community groups (like with your idea for a homeless mashup).

]]> By: admin http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-49 admin Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:36:02 +0000 http://www.lgeoresearch.com/?p=695#comment-49 Hi Noel, Thanks for your comments. I am also interested in the issues you have raised. What is in your opinion or your council are the cross cutting issues that councils need to tackle? It is definitely going to be hard to find the connection between what people want and what the council aims to achieve. Possibly together we can find a way to align these 2 goals together and not only tackle those issues that councils confronted with, but also educate the public on how these issues can affect their everyday lives. Two heads are always better than one! Look forward to hearing from you! Very interested to know your views. Liz Azyan Hi Noel,
Thanks for your comments. I am also interested in the issues you have raised. What is in your opinion or your council are the cross cutting issues that councils need to tackle? It is definitely going to be hard to find the connection between what people want and what the council aims to achieve. Possibly together we can find a way to align these 2 goals together and not only tackle those issues that councils confronted with, but also educate the public on how these issues can affect their everyday lives. Two heads are always better than one! Look forward to hearing from you! Very interested to know your views.

Liz Azyan

]]> By: Apps for America http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Apps for America Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:52:11 +0000 http://www.lgeoresearch.com/?p=695#comment-47 [...] Azyan wrote a good post recently about Mashups in Government. This covers work from mySociety and other parties, in the area of exploiting Government data to [...] [...] Azyan wrote a good post recently about Mashups in Government. This covers work from mySociety and other parties, in the area of exploiting Government data to [...]

]]> By: Noel http://www.lgeoresearch.com/mashups-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Noel Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:43:51 +0000 http://www.lgeoresearch.com/?p=695#comment-46 Thanks for linking to our article. I particularly found useful the last section on using mashups to tackle local problems - the way we're going to use mashups is providing the tools to enable residents to create their own (and even more importantly be able to share them with others who may find benefit from them too), and monitoring what everyday issues they create mashups to help solve. But I there may be a difference between what people or community groups want to solve and the wider cross cutting issues that councils need to tackle - there also needs to be ways where people creating mashups and councils can connect to support each other in this? Thanks for linking to our article. I particularly found useful the last section on using mashups to tackle local problems – the way we’re going to use mashups is providing the tools to enable residents to create their own (and even more importantly be able to share them with others who may find benefit from them too), and monitoring what everyday issues they create mashups to help solve.

But I there may be a difference between what people or community groups want to solve and the wider cross cutting issues that councils need to tackle – there also needs to be ways where people creating mashups and councils can connect to support each other in this?

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