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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 nee
by 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 agoExactly. 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.”