Title: Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for "Open Government Data"
Author: Joshua Tauberer
Date (published): version 1.1 dated 7/20/2009
Date (accessed): 13/09/2009
Type of information: scholarly monograph
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
"This document is a best practices guide for governments embracing the notion of "open data". It discusses why open government data is beneficial to society, i.e. how it is civic capital, and what kinds of technological considerations must be made when making government data open."
"The goal was 1) to motivate why open government data isn’t just an ideological issue but actually makes society more powerful, and can really make the world a better place, and 2) to outline some suggested priorities and recommendations for open government data, drawing on the recommendations of a number of past groups (e.g. the 8 Principles of Open Government Data, and others)"