RSSAlthough it sometimes take other actors to get government data ‘out there’, much government data is proactively exhibited by governments themselves. Data.gov in the US and Data.gov.uk in the UK are much-hyped examples.
The Danish government has created their version with the Datakildekataloget (Data Source Catalogue).
Datakildekataloget is implemented as part of the Government’s multimillion dollars Digitaliser.dk, “a social network and tool for development, knowledge sharing and a forum for the digitisation of Denmark”, run by the National IT and Telecom Agency, ITST. Digitaliser.dk also hosts the Danish e-GIF (e-government interoperability framework) and a machine-readable version of FORM, the Government Business Reference Model.
Awesome! “Totally Two Dot Oh”, as the sign says. “Find the gold”.
Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Project NemDigitaliser is my ‘hands-on’ experiments with the data provided through these initiatives, and some technical notes about these (JSON and Callback, API use cases, Standards Catalogue API (e-GIF access), Data Source Catalogue API, and FORM API).
I may come across as grumpy in those notes, sorry. But it’s mainly because the idea of building a ‘social platform’ for providing structured data about government data is so intriguing. It’s very, uhm, meta. It’s Government Data2.
