Open Civic Data Task

Brigades and brigade members contribute to the body of linked, open data about civic life by making civic data discoverable, easy to syndicate and easy to process by computers.

1. Find data that are meaningful to a known, easy to identify set of "customers"
2. If data are not online, put the raw data online at a URL for reference purposes
3. If data are not in a machine-readable format then write a transformation process to convert source to machine-readable
4. If the data are in a proprietary format then write a transformation to convert to an open format
5. Write a description of the data that includes links to sources, transformations and results
6. Publish the description of the data to a URL
7. Add the description to a catalog of linked, open data sets
8. Tell customers about the new data

A "customer" is anyone who's interest in the data is something other than how it is processed and published by computers. Customers have a "business domain" interest in the data.

See Also:

• 5 Star rating scheme by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Open Civic Data Story