Brad Peterson

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  Government Gazettes in XML

  Just last week the US Government started publishing the Federal Register in XML. A useful Australian equivalent would be publishing a daily listing of updates to all Gazettes (Government Notices Gazette, Australian Public Service Gazette, AusTender, Business Gazette, Tariff Concessions Gazette, Chemical Gazette, Food Standards Gazette, etc), legislation and statistics in a single XML feed. A single feed for all publications ...more »

  Just last week the US Government started publishing the Federal Register in XML. A useful Australian equivalent would be publishing a daily listing of updates to all Gazettes (Government Notices Gazette, Australian Public Service Gazette, AusTender, Business Gazette, Tariff Concessions Gazette, Chemical Gazette, Food Standards Gazette, etc), legislation and statistics in a single XML feed.

  A single feed for all publications updates would allow third parties to track issues of interest and reuse the information in ways that haven't been thought of yet.

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  Join the W3C eGovernment Interest Group and OASIS eGov

  It seems a lot of the ideas being discussed here are, to some extent, reinventing the wheel. It would be foolish to develop standards and tools in isolation from the rest of the world for several reasons. For starters, much of the hard work has already been done and we don't need to go to the expense of repeating what has already been done. Even worse would be an electronic version of different railway gauges. The ...more »

  It seems a lot of the ideas being discussed here are, to some extent, reinventing the wheel. It would be foolish to develop standards and tools in isolation from the rest of the world for several reasons. For starters, much of the hard work has already been done and we don't need to go to the expense of repeating what has already been done. Even worse would be an electronic version of different railway gauges.

  The eGov IG has already developed a lot of material on sharing government data, improving access to government using web services, participation in social media and semantic interoperability.

  The OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) eGov group promotes open standards for data sharing and open ICT solutions for citizen-centric government.

  However there is NO representation from the Australian government in either group.

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  Submitted by Brad Peterson 3 years ago

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  Whole of government persistent URL resolver service

  This was raised by Adrian Cunningham in his most recent blog entry. Link rot is a universal problem but happens regularly as government departments change their names and acronyms every few years. Persistent URL resolver services are well established in the scientific community but rely on the goodwill of a few key institutions to provide the resolver services. To guard against link rot and to support semweb activities ...more »

  This was raised by Adrian Cunningham in his most recent blog entry. Link rot is a universal problem but happens regularly as government departments change their names and acronyms every few years.

  Persistent URL resolver services are well established in the scientific community but rely on the goodwill of a few key institutions to provide the resolver services.

  To guard against link rot and to support semweb activities it makes sense for the government to have its own resolver. PURL server source code is open source so the cost is minimal.

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  NHMRC research funding dataset 2000–2009

  http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/dataset/rmis/index.htm

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  Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2009

  http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/medstat-jun09-contents

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  Gravity Anomaly Grid of the Australian Region - 2009

  https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno=67240

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  BlueNet - Australian Marine Science Data Network

  BlueNet is a great example of a platform for sharing, discovery, access and online integration of marine research data sets. The participating government agencies are Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Geoscience, Australian Antarctic Division, Royal Australian Navy and Australian Institute of Marine Science. There might be lessons here for sharing all types of data sets generated by government agencies.

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  data gov au - central metadata repository for government data sets and their meaning/context

  data.gov.au - cathedral/warehouse/bazaar for stuctured, meaningful descriptions of government data sets and information about how to access them. Machine readable metadata is made available in RDF based on standard Dublin Core/AGLS/AGRKMS vocabularies supported by standard SKOS/OWL ontologies. This allows anybody to find, download, use and re-use data sets generated and held by the government by building APIs, conduct ...more »

  data.gov.au - cathedral/warehouse/bazaar for stuctured, meaningful descriptions of government data sets and information about how to access them.

  Machine readable metadata is made available in RDF based on standard Dublin Core/AGLS/AGRKMS vocabularies supported by standard SKOS/OWL ontologies.

  This allows anybody to find, download, use and re-use data sets generated and held by the government by building APIs, conduct analysis and performing research.

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