By Rachel Bloom Rachel Bloom is a McGill University undergraduate student and project lead for Geothink’s Open Data Standards Project. In February, I led a Geothink seminar with city officials to introduce the results of our open data standards project we began approximately one year earlier. The project was started with the objective of assisting municipal publishers of open data … Read More
Bridging Differences in Open Data: Coming up with standards at Open North
By Drew Bush In case you missed either report, over the last year Open North has quietly put out an inventory of open data globally and, in a separate report, recommended baseline international standards for open data catalogs. The first report is entitled Gaps and opportunities for standardization in OGP members’ open data catalogs while the second is entitled Identifying … Read More
Part 2: Our Project Head on North American Civic Participation and Geothink's Projects
By Drew Bush Part 2 (of 2). This is the second in a two part series with the head of Geothink.ca, Renee Sieber, an associate professor in the Department of Geography and School of Environment at McGill University. In this second part, we pick up the story of how Sieber sees civic participation in North America during an age of … Read More