Tag Archives: #linkeddata

A New Beginning

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Richard Wallis

It is great to launch a new venture, and I am looking forward to launching this one – Data Liberate. Having said that, there is much continuity in this step. Those that know me from the conference circuit, my work with the Talis Group and more recently with Talis Consulting, will recognise much in the core of what Data Liberate has to offer. More…

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Library of Congress To Boldly Voyage To Linked Data Worlds

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Richard Wallis

The Library of Congress made an announcement earlier this week that has left some usually vocal library pundits speechless. MARC is Dead! – RDA made irrelevant! – cries that can be heard rattling around the bibliographic blogo-twittersphere. More…

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Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt3

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Richard Wallis

As often is the way, events have conspired to prevent me from producing this third and final part in this How & Why of Local Government Spending Data as soon as I wanted.  So my apologies to those eagerly awaiting … More…

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Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Richard Wallis

I started the previous post in this mini-series with an assumption – ..working on the assumption that publishing this [local government spending] data is a good thing. That post attracted several comments, fortunately none challenging the assumption.   So learning from … More…

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Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt1

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Richard Wallis

National Government instructing the 300+ UK Local Authorities to publish “New items of local government spending over £500 to be published on a council-by-council basis from January 2011” has had the proponents of both open, and closed, data excited over … More…

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