open data

Some recent news about the perpetual crusade to shut down public access to the WI circuit court records online. How are other states dealing with this?

Don't block access to court records:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/106478578.html?commentSubmitted=y&r...

State Rep. Marlin Schneider Loses Re-Election – What Does This Mean for CCAP?
http://petriestocking.com/blog/2010/11/09/state-rep-marlin-schneider-los...

Hi DIYcity

The City of SF has undertaken an experiment to develop an open source platform with the community that will help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. We see a great opportunity to work with other cities and developers in creating technology that is re-usable, free and open source to solve a common challenge. As members of DIYcity, this might be of interest.

You can learn more at our wiki and if you’re technically inclined check out our documentation. Our next open meeting is 7/2 @17:00 PDT dial in: 219-509-8111 [252380#]

http://apps.sfgov.org/opendata
http://apps.sfgov.org/opendata/index.php/Documentation

Jay Nath
jay [dot] nath (at)sfgov[dot]org

Hi DIY SF

The City of SF has undertaken an experiment to develop an open source platform with the community that will help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. We see a great opportunity to work with other cities and developers in creating technology that is re-usable, free and open source to solve a common challenge. As members of DIY SF, I’m writing to you to see if there is any interest in this initiative.

You can learn more at our wiki and if you’re technically inclined check out our documentation. Our next open meeting is 7/2 @17:00 PDT dial in: 219-509-8111 [252380#]

http://apps.sfgov.org/opendata
http://apps.sfgov.org/opendata/index.php/Documentation

Jay Nath
jay [dot] nath (at)sfgov[dot]org

I've been too busy lately to even post a quick note to the site here, but DIYcity Challenge #7 is finally online in Discussions.

The challenge: help city agencies everywhere to open their data by building a site scraper and API for them.

See here for the full scoop.