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Adventures in Open Data

September 14th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Government, Hawaii, Technology, The Web

Local news startup Civil Beat today posted a piece on the names and salaries of state House and Senate members and staff. As before, they posted a watermarked PDF on Slideshare with the download feature disabled, and invited people to become “full members” to use their searchable database. But if you’d like to download and [...]

Data Request Denied, Now Plan B

September 2nd, 2010 · 50 Comments · Government, Media, Technology, The Web

I had a nice conversation this afternoon with Marie Laderta, director of the state Department of Human Resources Development, in response to my request to secure the same data her office prepared for Civil Beat (and which Civil Beat hid behind its paywall). She was professional, articulate, and demonstrated that she understood the background and [...]

Civil Beat Puts Public Data Behind the Paywall

August 19th, 2010 · 27 Comments · Blogs, Media, Politics, The Web

The headline proclaims, “Civil Beat Shares Hawaii State Employee Salaries“ — but there’s a catch: you have to pay to get full access to the information. To be sure, there’s a reasonable and deep debate to be had over whether the names and salaries of government employees should be public in the first place. I was [...]