EU ‘INSPIRE’ Directive Is Theme For Public Sector GIS Event |
The Directive paves the way for all geospatial data to be shared by public bodies across the EU. It is set to come into full force in the UK in May 2009, but the countdown begins now. The directive lays down the ‘ground rules’ and arrangements which enable spatial data from separate digital databases to be combined seamlessly and for such datasets to be made widely available and used without undue difficulty. Read more at www.headstar.com |
Kundra to agencies: Get ready for data deluge |
Agencies need to prepare for an explosion of new data over the next five years that will be created partly because of emerging Web 2.0 technologies, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, told a conference in Washington..
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“This notion of thinking about data in a structured, relational database is dead,” Kundra said July 21 at the Open Government and Innovations Conference. “Some of the most valuable information is going to live in video, blogs and audio, and it is going to be unstructured inherently.”
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Electronic health records, for example, will transform the way people get health care and will generate new and varying pieces of data, Kundra said. “If you look at an iPhone and the ability to go out there and take a picture or video that is GPS coded, and upload it in real time has fundamentally changed the notion of the relationship between technology and us,” he said.
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Anticipated Web 3.0 jibes with open-government goals |
Almost every morsel of government data exists in electronic form somewhere, and with the exception of classified data, it is perfectly acceptable for public consumption. However, making it easy for people to find, analyze, share and ultimately understand the information is another story. |
Many tech experts say the solution lies in the Semantic Web, a slowly emerging set of technologies that aim to improve access to and the usability of information and software services on the Internet, ushering in a new era of Internet applications that some are already calling Web 3.0. Read more at fcw.com |
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All geospatial data to be shared by public bodies across the EU
