[bigclean] [euopendata] Idea: screen scraping sprint -> 19.3.2011

Sat Mar 5 12:29:55 UTC 2011

Thanks Daniel, I will add content to the site tomorrow.

+1 for the idea of using the wiki page for easy-to-access coordination 
place.

-Jogi

On 03/04/2011 11:40 PM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> www.bigclean.org is online and has now some very very basic content.
>
> I have added Antti and Jildrich to be Editors of the website. Other volunteers are very welcome.
>
> I also re-discovered this wiki page
>
> 	http://wiki.okfn.org/TheBigClean
>
> and I think we should communicate it as the main site for coordination of the cities since it's much easier to access and edit for everyone.
>
> So, let's move ahead and quickly add content to the wiki / wp site and make this a real great event!
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
>
>
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> On 04.03.2011, at 10:09, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>
>> Dear Antti and others,
>>
>> www.bigclean.org is part of the Word Press multisite of the OKFN. If you would like contribute with content, etc you will need to register as a "community member" at the OKFN
>>
>> 	http://okfn.org/register/
>>
>> I will then add you as a editor to the Big Clean. Please ping me of list once you have registered or if you need any assistance.
>>
>> I have started with a theme (I hope you like it) but encounter a problem with the images. More precisely with timthumb.php that makes tumbnails and rezises images. I had to change :
>>
>> 	$src = preg_replace("/\.\.+\//", "", $src);
>> 	to
>> 	$src = preg_replace("/files/", "/wp-content/blogs.dir/26/files/", $src);
>>
>> Just in case that someone has similar problems. Now it works and we can start adding content.
>>
>> Regards
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 03.03.2011, at 19:55, Antti Poikola wrote:
>>
>>> Cool Daniel!
>>>
>>> Could I get rights to create content:
>>>
>>> username: apoikola
>>>
>>> -Jogi
>>>
>>> On 03/03/2011 04:37 PM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> website is online: http://bigclean.org/
>>>>
>>>> I am now working on design / themeing
>>>>
>>>> And adding some structure and content to the side. More later today...
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03.03.2011, at 12:29, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2 March 2011 19:46, Antti Poikola<antti.poikola at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>>>> Really great response from so many people and special thanks to Daniel for
>>>>>> volunteering to halp with the site!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> About the general categories of data "what to scrape", I think we can take
>>>>>> the list from below and give it as inspiration for the participants.
>>>>> Can I make a suggestion: use http://ckan.net/ :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically let's agree the tag: bigclean (or thebigclean) and then
>>>>> just tag (and register) relevant datasets on ckan. Remember you can
>>>>> register datasets on CKAN which don't yet have any downloadable
>>>>> resources (but would after the big clean ;) )
>>>>>
>>>>> Rufus
>>>>>
>>>>>> -Jogi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I allready invited some of you in person to subscribe to the list where we
>>>>>> organize the Big Clean - bigclean at lists.okfn.org. But here the subscription
>>>>>> link for all: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/bigclean
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/02/2011 06:36 PM, Chris Taggart wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Off the top of my head, I'd say (and some of them overlap):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Democratic data: elected members, committee membership, meetings,
>>>>>> minutes, agendas, electoral districts
>>>>>> 2) Financial data: spending, accounts, budgets, contracts
>>>>>> 3) Geographic data: boundaries (inc electoral districts), buildings,
>>>>>> assets (e.g. schools, hospital, depots)
>>>>>> 4) Demographic data (often held by national statistics bodies)
>>>>>> 5) Performance data - education, social care, road maintenance, etc,
>>>>>> which is often delivered at the local level.
>>>>>> 6) Policy data: forward plans, zoning/planning approvals
>>>>>> 7) Transport data
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd love to see OpenlyLocal be the focus of some of this, in part
>>>>>> because it makes sense, in part because we've done a lot of the work
>>>>>> and could avoid reinventing the wheel, in part because it would be
>>>>>> nice to get other countries' data in there, and in part it would be
>>>>>> nice to get some EU funding for what up to now has been entirely
>>>>>> self-funded ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We've also been pretty successful at doing scoreboards that make a
>>>>>> difference (over 70 UK councils now with open data sections).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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