Tweaking the five stars...

[Tim Davies]

Hey,

Based on our conversation a few weeks back I've suggested a tweak the the current five stars, trying to make number 2 less tech specific. So - rather than 

* * Provide good meta-data and put data in context

I've suggested rewriting this to just:

* * Put the data in context

With the blurb:

Do you provide clear information to describe that data you provide, including information about frequency of updates, data formats and data quality? Do you include qualitative information alongside datasets such as details of how the data was created, or manuals for working with the data? Do you link from data catalogue pages to analysis of the data that your organisation, or third-parties, have already carried out with it, or to third-party tools for working with the data?  

Will try and get a web page up for all this in the next few days, and then get that position paper written.

Jag - would be great to hear about how discussions in Sheffield went...

All the best

Tim

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[Tim Davies]

Hey again,

I've got draft page at http://www.opendataimpacts.net/engagement/ to act as a URL to refer to the five stars.

Planning to:

• Add links to the charter document there;
• Add some blog posts of context;
• Start adding blog posts with examples of each step of engagement. Hopefully by tagging these it should be possible to get them to display nicely by the stars and to get a useful resource building up

All thoughts/feedback welcome.

All the best

Tim

[Graham]

Hello,

On Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:46:26 PM UTC+1, Tim Davies wrote:

Hey again,

I've got draft page at http://www.opendataimpacts.net/engagement/ to act as a URL to refer to the five stars.

Great stuff, I'll have a proper look in a week or so - a little busy getting everything prepared for France at the mo :) 

Initial thought - it might be good to start out by expanding on what "engagement" means, in this context. e.g. If the five stars of open data make it easier for developers to technically re-use data, do the five stars of open data engagement make it easier for "content users" to re-use the data? What makes a data user a happy data user? 

Also something worth looking at/thinking on is Steph Gray's new site on (more general) digital engagement, with examples, guides, etc: http://www.digitalengagement.info/ 

Best,

Graham

 

Planning to:

• Add links to the charter document there;
• Add some blog posts of context;
• Start adding blog posts with examples of each step of engagement. Hopefully by tagging these it should be possible to get them to display nicely by the stars and to get a useful resource building up

All thoughts/feedback welcome.

All the best

Tim

[Tim Davies]

Hey Graham,

The choice of Wordpress to set something up was inspired by Steph's new site. Was thinking we could borrow the idea of thumbnail posts under each star to collect examples of practice.

On the explaining engagement - good point. I'll think about developing a page on that. I've also taken the preamble form the charter draft to put that with the stars, as I think it frames them well.

All the best

Tim