Five stars of open data - example and review
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Published on 2012-05-29T14:26:48Z
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I have some data I'd like to make open to the public - It's synatesis of some related data retrived from freedom of infomation requests over the last year.
The data itself is at http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/joseph/domesday/Domesday-Scotland.csv or for fans of Excel, at http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/joseph/domesday/Domesday-Scotland.xlsx . It's no more than a table with about five columns.
I'd like to make this properly open data, so I was looking at the 5 star deployment scheme for Open Data. Much of which is fine but I'm confused towards the end and I could do with an explenation from people who know the answers.
So to get achieve the star levels I need:
- "make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open license" trival - all I have to do is put the notes up on the page that will give the provance of the data.
- "make it available as structured data (e.g., Excel instead of image scan of a table)"… done…
- "use non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)" - done…
- "use URIs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff" - this is where I start to get a bit hazy - does this mean there should be an URI for every line in the table?
- "link your data to other data to provide context" - this isn't massively clear to me - does this mean to give the provence of the data? One column of the data I've put out is a link to where the data came from - is that the sort of thing we're looking at?
Any and all information and answers welcome…
EDIT - or if anyone wants to recommend a place SE or other place to ask the question - that would be cool...
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