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While it is a great positive change that data is being released through numerous efforts around the world, data release is not the same as Open Data release . A number of Canadian cities have announced Open Data initiatives, but they are not releasing Open Data. They are just releasing data. Of course, this is better than not releasing data. But let's at least be honest about what we are doing. Why aren't they Open Data? Because their licenses are not Open Data licenses: Not Open Data : Edmonton: " The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and for any reason ..." - from Terms of Use Not Open Data : Vancouver: "The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and for any reason..." - Terms of Use Not Open Data : Ottawa: " The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and f...

Tomorrow is (sadly) my last official day * as a university visitor at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra . I've been here since late June, invited by ANU adjunct and Funnelback chief scientist (and ex-CSIRO ) David Hawking , to visit the Algorithms and Data Research Group , School of Computer Science , College of Engineering and Computer Science . I was installed in a lovely office looking out into the campus, where I've been working on large scale journal visualization, a continuation of the Torngat project . I've been working on a couple of things, including applying Mulan to the multi-label problem of the corpus I am working with, so I can get precision and recall to evaluate this method empirically. My productivity has been hampered by a recurring stomach problem (which appears to be gone this last week: yay!), so I've not progressed as much as I would have wanted to.... :-( At the end of last week I gave a presentation at CSIRO (in the same bui...

The recent conference E-Government ICT Professionalism and Competences Service Science (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Industry-Oriented Conferences, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy) is of interest to those involved with ICT in government and eGovernment in general (although the conference is rather EU-centred). Note the content is behind a pay-wall, so you can't read the articles unless you belong to an institution that has a subscription or you have one yourself. Of interest: Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved? E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework IT skill requirements in Public Administration How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis Search: "open source": Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Opera...