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Event: “A Pneumatic Database Soiree”, Saturday 4th June, 2.00pm – 3.30pm

by Kevin 16/05/2011 in Bristol

Internationally renowned artists YoHa will perform an event entitled ‘A Pneumatic Database Soiree’ on Saturday 4th June, 2.00pm – 3.30pm in the Chamber Room at the Bristol City Council House on College Green. The event is an art performance that builds on the series of public encounters at the Create Centre, Knowle West Media [...]

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€20,000 prize pool on offer in Open Data Challenge

by Kevin 08/04/2011 in Bristol

The Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Forum Academy and the Share PSI initiative are organising a competition challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.
The Open Data Challenge has four main categories:

Ideas – Anyone can suggest an idea for projects which [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee demonstrates the impact of early Open Data initiatives

by Kevin 02/08/2010 in Bristol

In 2009 Sir Time Berners-Lee, cited by many as the innovative mind behind the development of the world wide web, encouraged the audience at one of his talks to join him in the chant “Raw Data Now!” (10mins 50secs). The arguments for open data (and even the chant itself) had been developing over the previous  [...]

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Open Data – Tough Decisions

by Stephen Hilton 28/07/2010 in Bristol

Today was the closing date for submissions to the Bristol B-Open competition and I am delighted to hear that we have had 11+ proposals for innovative open data projects from Bristol companies. The expert panel (and me) will be shortlisting over the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed we will be able to commission [...]

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Bristol Streets: Data Mapping the City

by Kevin 22/07/2010 in Bristol

Bristol Streets is a web site that provides map based information about transport, and individuals opinions of the city of Bristol. Local web firm Logogriph developed the map mash up, working with a range of transport data sources, including buses, cycle routes, trains and ferries.  There is also a layer to comment on the [...]

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First Meeting of Bristol Innovative Data Projects Group – aka “Freeing-up Council Data”

by Stephen Hilton 08/03/2010 in Bristol

As Tim Berners Lee calls for Governments, Scientists and Institutions to make their data openly available on the Web and Government launches its Open Data Portal this afternoon we held the first meeting of our Innovative Data Projects group – this is just one of the new “20-20” projects that the the recent Council Budget [...]

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What do they know?

by Kevin 01/02/2010 in Bristol

There is an incredible amount of useful and important information held by various bodies across the public sector. Much of it could be accessible under Freedom of Information legislation if you know how to ask for it.
MySociety has been building websites to improve civic and community life since 2003. As well as launching WriteToThem, PledgeBank [...]

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Website opens up public access to government data

by Kevin 21/01/2010 in People

The Government has launched a website to give the public access to a range of information and data sets. The site’s development was overseen by Sir Tim Berners Lee and builds upon the model developed in the USA with the launch of data.gov.
The site encourages innovation and novel re-use of the information to produce unforeseen [...]

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