Government Operations committee  To focus on...?

Government Operations committee  I think we're still at a discovery stage. A lot of users are just finding out that this is available and are having fun sorting through it, but I'm not sure we're at that point.

Government Operations committee  Actually, I was referring to trouble with automated data use. This comes back to something Ms. Bates mentioned earlier. The expression “open data“ does not just mean public and freely accessible data, it also means data in a format that computer applications can use. Some data f

Government Operations committee  I would like to add something to what the others have said. The majority of sites I have accessed have a button on the lower right-hand side that says: “Which data set would you like? Please ask us for your data set.” Apparently, there is already some willingness to let users c

Government Operations committee  Yes, you should advertise. I can't understand why you wouldn't advertise, unless you're afraid that access to the website might be too tremendous, but I don't think we're there yet. I think advertise, yes, but also make sure that you give sufficient explanations as to what the

Government Operations committee  I don't know whether I should answer in French or English.

Government Operations committee  I think because the discussion has been going on in English I will pursue this way. If I understood correctly you want my opinion on whether organizations may stop collecting data so they won't have to disseminate it. They can't disseminate what they don't have.

Government Operations committee  I will try a tiny answer, however. There's actually a link between increasing open data and the data-intensive research, referred to as big data. There'll be a point when there will be so much data, it won't be that we won't know what to do with it but we won't know how to handl

Government Operations committee  No, but...

Government Operations committee  The acronym RDF stands for Resource Description Framework. It's an extremely simple format, which allows the computer to manipulate it. However, it is highly structured. So it is painstaking for a person to write and read it. In Canada, there are several data sets in CSV format,

Government Operations committee  Thank you for this invitation. I was told that it may be a good idea for me to introduce myself first in order to assist you in your questions, which I will be happy to answer afterwards in either English or French. I am a bit of a strange beast. My training has been in several