Response to consultation on an open data standard for information about...
0000-0001-5882-6823This is my response to The London Assembly Health and Public Services Committee‘s consultation on an open data standard for information about public toilets [Googe Docs link]. Try...
View ArticleMaking a Difference to My Career
0000-0001-5882-6823As you may know, I left my job with Birmingham City Council (after 21 years!) at the end of April, and am now in the process of setting up as a freelance advisor on online...
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Open-licensing your images. What it means and how to do it.
0000-0001-5882-6823I do a lot of editing on Wikipedia. Sometimes I approach someone connected with a subject I’m writing about (or the subject themself), and ask them to provide an “open licensed”...
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Bullet points from UK Govcamp 2012
0000-0001-5882-6823I spent Friday and Saturday at UKGovCamp2012, a splendid unconference, in London, for people interested in the use of digital technologies in local and national government. Or...
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Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please
0000-0001-5882-6823Politicians, like visits to the dentist and taxes, are a necessary evil. We all moan about them, but someone has to take care of the machinery of state. So it’s important that we...
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How should a hackday be run?
0000-0001-5882-6823I’m working with a large public-sector organisation who have a considerable — and potentially very useful — body of data. They’re keen to open it up, and would like to encourage...
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For I’m a Jolly Good Fellow (of the RSA)
0000-0001-5882-6823I may have been overlooked, once again, in the new year’s honours list, but in mid-December I received an unsolicited and very flattering email; I’d been nominated, by their Regional...
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A reply from the UK government to my request for road gritting open data
0000-0001-5882-6823The government website data.gov.uk, to quote its about page, hosts datasets — as open data — ”from all central government departments and a number of other public sector bodies and...
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United Kingdom parliamentary URL structure: change needed
0000-0001-5882-6823In Wikidata, Wikipedia’s sister project for storing statements of fact as linked, open data, we record a number of unique identifiers. For example, Tim Berners-Lee has the VIAF...
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Documenting public art, on Wikipedia
0000-0001-5882-6823Wikipedia has a number of articles listing public artworks (statues, murals, etc) in counties, cities and towns, around the world. For example, in Birmingham. There’s also a list of...
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