Open AccessCivil Society and the Open Data Movement
Author(s) -
James Church
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v45i3.6486
Subject(s) - repurposing , civil society , publishing , political science , task force , open data , public administration , public relations , task (project management) , library science , management , law , engineering , computer science , economics , politics , waste management
The GODORT International Documents Task Force held a pre-conference at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago titled “International Statistics: Helping Library Users Understand the Global Community,”1 with which I was only marginally involved. But I was asked by the committee if it was worth presenting on Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) data, to which I replied it was not: most civil society organizations were not yet in the business of repurposing publicly available data or publishing their own.