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By: discontents - Some archives hacking

discontents - Some archives hacking — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:41:46 +0000

[...] exciting is that people are already using this data. At the recent GovHack event in Canberra the What The Federal Government Does team worked on visualising the activities of government by using functions data pulled from the [...]

By: Cath

Cath — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:13:19 +0000

Thanks, Kerry. Suggestions? (Whatever the seed data / taxonomy is, crowd-sourced enhancement is probably the go.)

By: kawebb

kawebb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:46:38 +0000

You need to remember that AGIFT was never designed for a purpose such as this.

Functions (in the Commonwealth Government sense) are used traditionally so that professional archivists and record managers can keep track of registry files as the functions move from agency to agency at each Machinery of Government change.

For this reason, as more user-friendly classification scheme or taxonomy would be a better choice.

By: Govhack: govt data + hackers + caffeine == good times | Government 2.0 Taskforce

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:53:47 +0000

[...] Government Does, an enormous tag cloud of the different functions of government, combined with visualisations of government functions shared between [...]

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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:55:25 +0000

[...] What the federal government does – first steps « Making Manifest catherinestyles.com/2009/11/02/wtfgd-first-steps – view page – cached At Govhack a small team of folks started working on the idea of visualising all the activities of the (Australian) federal government, so that as citizens we are better positioned to identify where… (Read more)At Govhack a small team of folks started working on the idea of visualising all the activities of the (Australian) federal government, so that as citizens we are better positioned to identify where we’d like to intervene in government processes. This post documents the progress we made. (Read less) — From the page [...]