Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2011/01/opengov-data.php Towards the end of 2010, Wikileaks generates many headlines as it publishes information on the web, causing controversy and leading to talk about politicians hiding...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities “Free citizens must be able to hold big institutions and powerful individuals to account.” I attended a speech at the Institute for Government by UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at which he...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities This is my first year attending the ESWC (formerly "European Semantic Web Conference" now the "Extended Semantic Web Conference," cleverly, the acronym still works) near Heraklion on Crete. It's...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities |This post will feature in Nodalities Magazine issue 10. In April, I was watching the twitterverse explode during the Facebook’s f8 conference, as a steady stream of links and gasps and...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I know what you're thinking: "He's going to say Data!" Well, I might do at some point, but I was going to say "Days". Last month, Talis flung open its doors to 30 or so folk who were interested...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Last week, I met up with some folks who are building some amazing things with public data. After seeing their Postcode Paper project, I was left with the lasting impression that given the raw...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities So, we've been banging on about opening up access to public data for a while. Talis has put its money where its mouth is and helped to fund the PDDL to give organisations a legal framework for...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities It's hardly new for this blog or our community to cover issues of open access and making information useful for users. But, what if we were to begin speaking in terms such as: "A call for...
Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities The tech world is telling a story about the Web and computing, and the mainstream media seem to be catching on. They're hearing about clouds, wikis, and the history of the World-wide Web. The...