Visualizar started yesterday at the Medialab-Prado in Madrid, and information aesthetics covers the event with a great writeup of some of what happened on the first day.
In the following lecture it became clear that having the right to access information is not enough in order to make such data public. According to José Manuel Alonso, it is necessary to put the information where people are looking for it – e.g. the Library of the Congress that published photos on Flickr. He presented the benefits of making public data available through structured formats instead of through official portals. In this way information can be turned into well used applications, such as Facebook.
Read the full report (with links) on his site.
via Visualizar’09 Kick-Off: Discussing Public Data, Data in Public – information aesthetics.
