Posts tagged "Office of Public Sector Information"

Talking with Richard Stirling about progress with data.gov.uk

In my latest podcast I talk with Richard Stirling of the UK Government’s Cabinet Office, and we discuss progress with the Government’s ambitious data.gov.uk site. [display_podcast] This podcast was recorded on Friday 16 July, 2010. I spoke with John Sheridan of the Government’s Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) back in July of 2009, when...

If Government is a Platform, what are people building?

I’ve written and spoken before about a recent upsurge in enthusiasm for exposing data from Government in ways that facilitate use and re-use, and will doubtless be returning to this topic in the ‘Government Data’ panel session at the Linked Data Meetup in London on Wednesday. Tim Berners-Lee has been amongst those rallying to the...

John Sheridan talks about the drive to get Government data online

John Sheridan’s role as Head of e-Services at the UK Government‘s Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) places him at the heart of this country’s enthusiastic drive toward increasing visibility of Government data online. As we discuss in this podcast, the programme is ambitious but eminently achievable, and builds upon a tradition that has actually...