Open Data

Assumptions of features of the data:

• • available to anyone

  • formats are published at worst, open at best

    • "open" means not one organization/company or consortium controls the specification

    • process and final decisions argued in public, decisions published

    • **INCOMPLETE LIST**

  • minimum: downloadable zip files

  • ideal: API with uptime guarantee

    • how do you guarantee uptime? Does guaranteeing uptime make sense?

  • accuracy

  • precision

  • scrubbed for privacy

    • is a description of data removed noted for the record? Necessary?

Repositories

• • revisions? diffs?

  • distributed repositories? what about retraction? verification?

  • data marketplaces (e.g. SimpleGeo)? "Let the market decide."