Tag Archives: open data

Gov Camp 2012 – 15 take home pointers

GovCamp 2012 was awesome. With two days of packed and uber interesting un-conference style talks, coupled with an opportunity to talk to and debate with a whole host of varied people, the event was truly worth working on a Saturday … Continue reading

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“A better sense of place” – using geo-tools in consultations for searching and sharing (developer playtime)

I’ve recently spent some time playing with the idea of associating Citizen Space consultations with a geographic location. We already do this to some extent.  Consultations can be associated with one or more local wards or areas, so that visitors … Continue reading

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Open Data, Government, and the importance of acting now…

I’m currently at the fantastic Picnic festival in Amsterdam, where many things are being discussed under this years theme Urban Futures. One of the highlight of yesterday was a round table discussion on Open Government Data. The speakers included Lawrence … Continue reading

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Using RDFa to create a Google Calendar

Part of what we like to do in Delib is demonstrate how easy it can be explore to Linked Data and get more engagement from a public consultation process. I’ve just spent an hour or so playing around with the … Continue reading

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Opening up the Citizen Space consultation Aggregator

Earlier this year we launched our consultation Aggregator, and put a demonstration site online.  This combines all our clients’ consultations running on Delib’s Citizen Space software into a single, searchable hub.  We were very pleased with this demo, and its … Continue reading

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Making open data more useful, usable and engaging

From Delib’s work in open data we suggest that for local authorities releasing the data is important, yet providing context to data released makes it useful, usable and engaging to the public. Continue reading

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Open data – our results

Last year Delib had the amazing opportunity to take part in iShed’s Media Sandbox B-Open scheme. Although our original intention was scuppered by the limitations of data within the sets we were working with, we learnt lots which we have … Continue reading

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I heart my city – B-Open showcase

Friday saw the showcase of Delib’s B-Open project in collaboration with Bristol City Council and Media Sandbox. For the past 5 months we’ve been looking at Open Data produced by the council and drawing up recommendations for how they produce … Continue reading

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Delib B-Open Exhibition preparation

Delib are presenting at the Watershed tomorrow and our exhibition is taking shape. We’ve been working with Bristol City Council and Media Sandbox as part of the B-Open project, looking into using Open Data – particularly the council spending data … Continue reading

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5 Things we learned from UK GovCamp 11

A summary of the things Delib learnt at GovCamp. Open-source, open-data, ideas-sharing, etc.

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