One of the hobby horses ridden in this Blog is the more effective use of government data, with occasional side-swipes at Councils that harass local businesses to hand over data that's already been supplied to another level of government. With the introduction of Standard Business Reporting by the Australian government, and a greater use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL - the business extension of XML)government data should not only become more standardised but also more available.
This week (Friday, Saturday) the Federal Government will open its data to web developers during its first "hack" day. Around 150 attendees are expected to descend on the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra for GovHack, where developers will be encouraged to test the effectiveness of mash ups between Australian Government data sets and commercial APIs. This is the direction in which government at every level should be headed.
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