Open Data Principles and Database Creation Principles

= Introduction =

This page contains background research and useful writings on open data principles and principles for building data catalogs.

= Open Data Principles =


 * Open Data Principles Discussion Draft
 * "Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information" (8/11/2010)
 * "A Principled Look at Open Data" (8/11/2010)
 * "Open Data is Civic Capital: Best Practices for Open Government Data" (4/14/2010)
 * "A Study in Transparency: The Open Government Directive, the Department of Labor, and the Open Data Principles" (4/12/2010)
 * "Government Data Sets - Managing Expectations" (4/7/2010)
 * "Open Knowledge" defined by Open Definition; and "Open Software Service" defined by Open Definition
 * "Evaluating /Open pages" (1/29/2010)
 * Open Data Principles Spreadsheet (January, 2010)
 * "Publishing Open Government Data" W3C (9/8/2009)
 * "8 Open Government Data Principles," from Sebastopol, California (12/2/2007)
 * "Themes for Legislative Information Publication," (2/12/2007)

= Building Data Catalogs =


 * 10 Principles for Improving Federal Transparency, by Vivek Kundra (7/14/2011)
 * "Publishing Open Government Data" W3C Working Draft (8/9/2009)
 * "Why everyone should know what makes a good data set; it’s not as hard as you think" (3/29/2010)
 * “Government Datasets That Facilitate Innovation,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/1/2010)
 * “Basic Data Format Lessons,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/2/2010)
 * “Labeling Dataset Contents,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/3/2010)
 * “Correcting Errors and Making Changes,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/8/2010)
 * “Best Practices for Government Datasets: Wrap-up,” Freedom to Tinker Blog (3/12/2010)
 * “Drafting Guidelines for Government Data Catalogs,” Sunlight Labs Blog (3/29/2010)

= Government Data Catalogs =


 * Sunlight Labs' wiki of Government Data Catalogs (link)
 * Sunlight Labs Recommendation: Evaluating Data Set Quality (link)

= Working Groups =


 * eGovernment Interest Group (from W3C) http://www.w3.org/egov/wiki/Main_Page

= Other Resources =


 * http://wiki.openmuni.org/Open_Data_Guidelines