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  1. Tom Morris: When is a dataset not a dataset?

    The hackday project that crowdsourced data.gov.uk

    How many of the now 3241 datasets listed as part of data.gov.uk are easy to open up and play with? How many are tables for computers to analyse, instead of PDF reports for people to read?

    The Hacks and Hackers Hackday filled a Channel 4 office with journalists and developers on the final Friday in January. Our aim was to tell new stories with open data. Attendees already had form - the BBC’s Open Secrets blogger Martin Rosenbaum, and data journalism teams from the Times, the Guardian, and the FT. Tom Loosemore judged our attempts in his role as head of hosts 4iP, alongside My Society boss Tom Steinberg. They awarded the prize to my team’s analysis of Tory candidates. But another project promised to shed light on public data in the UK.

    Tom Morris was part of a team that looked into the quality of data.gov.uk. Although data.gov.uk advertises itself as a database of open datasets, many of the entries are actually PDF files. He built a prototype format checker that invites people to go through datasets and record the file format.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/04/datagovuk-format-checker.shtml

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  2. Don Watson on the Absurdity of Corporate Speak

    Powerpoint presentations, key performance indicators and mission statements. Do they make our businesses and institutions run more efficiently, or are they irritating and faddish, not just devoid of meaning, but actually obstructive of clear communication? In his new book, "Bendable Learnings", there is no doubt what Don Watson thinks. In this laugh-out-loud talk at the ANU, he outlines his argument for why we need to avoid the ridiculous confusion of corporate language.

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  3. BarCampBrighton4: How to become a command-line superdork

    Another talk I gave at BarCampBrighton4 in September 2009: discusses SSH, agent forwarding, at jobs, screen, rtorrent, mutt, vim, vimperator.

    Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/280457966/command-line-superdork.mp3

    BitTorrent: http://s3.amazonaws.com/tommorris/command-line-superdork.mp3?torrent

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  4. BarCampBrighton4: Resource Naming and Necessity

    A talk I gave at BarCampBrighton4 in September 2009 drawing parallels between URIs on the Web and Saul Kripke’s causal theory of names as presented in Naming and Necessity (http://icanhaz.com/namingandnecessity). The first half is rather technical and dry, but gets more practical as it goes on.

    You can also download the talk from Rapidshare or BitTorrent - both of which enable me to keep my bandwidth bills low:

    Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/280438449/resource-naming-and-necessity.mp3

    BitTorrent: http://s3.amazonaws.com/tommorris/resource-naming-and-necessity.mp3?torrent

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  5. Semantic Web Gang: Interfaces to the Semantic Web

    With so much effort being devoted to the back-office manipulation and storage of semantic data, it is all too easy to forget the opportunities - and challenges - posed in inviting mainstream users to ‘browse the graph’ of semantic data. With expert contributions from MIT’s David Karger and the DBpedia team’s Christian Becker, the Gang sets about ensuring that the Interface is not forgotten.

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