Information Architectures
Models for presenting information over the internet have often been driven by their ‘shiny front ends’. The user-facing website is all important and the supporting data is somehow squeezed into this....
View ArticleInteraction Layer
Thinking more about the work programme for the Task Force and the layered model I described earlier, there is a need for an additional layer above the Presentation Layer. INTERACTION LAYER – the...
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Some diagrams to stimulate further thought and discussion on what needs to be done architecturally to realise the power of public information. Diagram 1 – the ‘traditional approach’ The emphasis of...
View ArticlePackaging Data for Reuse
The Open Knowledge Foundation has been working for some time on promoting knowledge ‘which anyone is free to use, re-use and redistribute without legal, social or technological restriction‘. (The...
View ArticleAccess Layer Components
The Task Force work has been divided into two broad areas – exemplars and enablers. The ShowUsABetterWay competition has taken forward the exemplars strand. On the enablers side, we have been working...
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