The Scholarly Kitchen blogger Alix Vance has posted interesting commentary on the current "open government" data push. The entire 25 May 2010 post, Data.gov: Selling the Government and Democratization of Information, is worth a read. Here is a brief excerpt:
Professionals will find or create the means to build utilities from these emerging global repositories of government data that will:
- Enable comparisons of data that has historically been unavailable, siloed, and non-standardized
- Deliver tools that surface previously hidden relationships between data points and suggest relational meanings
- Aid users develop[ing] new hypotheses and research entry points
The article also comments on how government release of free, bulk data may affect publishers.
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