A Principled Look at Open Data

Source: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2010/08/11/a-principled-look-at-open-data/

One year ago, but always valid

From Moses to James Madison to David Letterman, important ideas come in lists of ten, as do these principles for opening up government information.^[1] The list isn’t new: my colleague John Wonderlich wrote about “themes for legislative information publication” in February 2007, and eight open government data principles emerged from a conference organized by internet oracle Carl Malamud and technology publisher Tim O’Reilly in December 2007.^[2] However, we have refreshed the principles, expanded upon them, and added details.