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Friday lunchtime lecture: Creating a web of cats

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Fri Nov 25, 2016 13:00

Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

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ODI Fridays lunchtime lectures

ODI’s Peter Wells explains how a bout of lunchtime whimsy led him to create an open data register of UK government cats

Friday 25 November 2016, 1:00pm – 1:00pm

Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE

Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Is it possible there aren’t enough cats on the web? In this lecture, ODI’s Peter Wells explains how a bout of lunchtime whimsy led him to create an open data register of UK government cats. He talks about the tools he used to create the register and dashboard, how people can help collaboratively maintain them on the web and some of the lessons he learnt along the way. He also admits that it wasn’t all about cats and talks about how anyone can help strengthen data infrastructure.