The manifesto draft is open for comments

We ran a ballot exercise in the week leading up to OKFest and at the open knowledge fair the day before (week of 16th July 2014), details at http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/0e9ada82172c70b00255922a77373a7f#....

Over 140 people responded to the ballot and during the first session we talked through the results. With participants at the session we challenged some of the assumptions and broke down the statements so that we could start to think about how they would be reflected in the manifesto.

A second session took place on Thursday, July 17 • 15:30 - 16:30

For the second session:
 
We presented our first draft of the manifesto [link to google doc] and talked through the language and some of the statements and assumptions that were reflected. 

In particular participants discussed:

    
o    visualisation of data and to what extent publishers should provide analysis. There was some comment that there is often too much jargon and therefore data is not straight forward to understand, particularly on a non-technical level.
o    Information would be democratised if there was a more ‘human’ presentation of data, rather than it just serving the needs of a technical elite.
o    Payment for data was broadly considered to be anathema and at odds with participants’ understanding of ‘open’ data. Participants agreed that there should be, at the very least, a basic level of data available in open format, free of charge, with the opportunity to add value/enhance accessibility in a ‘freemium’ model being available to data providers.
o    Whether open data should be provided with resolvable unique reference indicators for linking and how these could be framed in the most useable way.
 
We agreed to include a tool, for discussing and creating definitions for terms used in the manifesto, alongside the online consultation. 

The open data glossary, a crowsourcing tool for definitions can be found here (linking to the open data entry):  
http://data.gov.uk/glossary#letter_o
(note that you will have to create a data.gov.uk account to participate, as we don't allow annonimous comments due to huge spam issues in the past)

The etherpad for the sessions can be found here:
https://pad.okfn.org/p/An_open_data_manifesto
(same content as this entry)

The manifesto document can be found here:    
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11KQWLTJvugaf0ZzAQhh4Ij7M0CjC8uLRvAos...