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Literally everything that is available via FOI should just be posted online proactively.

• sokoloff 4y ago
  Curation would become a problem (maybe even to the point of requiring more resources in aggregate than complying with current FOI/FIOA requests).
  • JoshTriplett 4y ago
    I'm not suggesting any curation that wouldn't already have happened as a result of existing needs for organization. Just publication.
    • sokoloff 4y ago
      Look at your own photos on your phone. Mine are all IMG_####. Scale that up to thousands of organizations and tens of thousands of users.
      • samwillis 4y ago
        The point is publicly funded and government data should be public by default. The organisation of that now public data isn’t within the mandate, and doesn’t need to be, of the originating organisation. Journalist, hobbyist, investigators, or the just generate intrigued can organise the data or trawl through it to their hearts content. That’s literally what Datasette was built for.
        • JoshTriplett 4y ago
          Exactly. Is there some expectation that the governmental organization will have a giant pile of completely unorganized data? Or that they'll have it organized for their own day-to-day usage? The latter will suffice.
          • sokoloff 4y ago
            “I would like the ScotRail audio files.” “We don’t do FOI any more; it’s all online but uncurated. Download the petabytes of data from gov.uk and I’m sure you’ll find it in there somewhere.”