CDO as business development: Some notes from experience
Luke Fretwell posted an interesting article on the role CDO has as a business development officer: If I was a Chief Data Officer [...] I would also proactively reach out to these companies to find out...
View ArticleData portals are tomorrow’s map room
I’ve often found myself exploring a library’s map room or thumbing through old Census records while taking study breaks. I was often surprised how I could become engrossed with old data. Some of the...
View ArticleOpen data as consumer protection
Courtesy of Scott L. Licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Open data has a number of uses: transparency, economic development, galvanizing technology, and also consumer...
View ArticleWhat to post on open data portals? Let me Google, er, Bing that for you.
Quick wins. An entire post–nay, novel–could be written about the life of quick wins. For data portals, quick wins are important. I’ve talked to a number of cities who have a fresh data portal and they...
View ArticleNot the time for standards in Open Data, yet
It seems with the rise of a new technology, it soon follows on the discussion on how to standardize it. This is true for open data and the call for standards of key data sets where data on a particular...
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