[open-government] Open Data hackathon outputs

Fri Dec 3 14:04:02 UTC 2010

To help with Rufus's (3) below (a link to the code), people might like
to write their cleaning up code in ScraperWiki.

http://scraperwiki.com/

There are collaboration advantages too while hacking - other people
can look at the code you're working on, and help out.

We're going to try and make sure there's somebody around from
ScraperWiki on the IRC channel, to answer questions and do scraping
during the hackathon.

Francis

Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> said:
> One thing I would like to emphasize as an output is new or cleaned up
> (open) datasets.
> 
> Usually in hackathons there's quite an emphasis on visual outputs be
> that a visualization or a app -- in part because it's a lot easier to
> demo and show what you did for 8h!
> 
> By contrast, producing datasets (or cleaning up existing ones) is
> relatively unsexy but, IMO, very valuable -- perhaps more valuable
> than the average app. It would thus be good to encourage this area of
> work.
> 
> One way to do this is to ensure a standard way for logging and
> presenting what people do here and so I'd like to propose any datasets
> created as outputs from the hackathon be added as new entries (or
> extension to existing entries) in a relevant community data catalogue
> (e.g. http://ckan.net/, http://datadotgc.ca, http://offenedaten.de,
> ... [1]), with the entry containing:
> 
> 1) a link to original dataset (if this is a cleaning exercise)
> 2) a link to new dataset
> 3) a link to the code used to do the processing
> 4) a tag opendataday2010
> 
> Often you can merge (2) and (3) by uploading the data into the repo
> (though this can be hard for large items).
> 
> Rufus
> 
> [1]: http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/instances
> 
> On 2 December 2010 00:10, David Eaves <david at eaves.ca> wrote:
>> Hello open data hackathon organizers,
>> 
>> One or two additional thoughts.
>> 
>> 1) I had a call today from a reporter at the daily press (the new
>> Ipad only
>> progressive "newspaper" being started by Murdoch). They would
>> love to hear
>> of visualizations and projects that get off the ground on
>> Saturday with an
>> eye on writing about them. Please do let me know what if anything
>> you get up
>> to as I'd love to connect you with him.
>> 
>> I suspect there will be more media like this - my goal is to
>> connect media
>> to people actually organizing the events and the developers whose
>> projects
>> get off the ground... so please, do let me know!
>> 
>> 2) I'll be sending out an update to the Vancouver group tomorrow
>> via my blog
>> and mailing list - please do feel free to use it as a template...
>> (both
>> Montreal and Ottawa have both sent out theirs in case you can't
>> wait! - they
>> are fantastic reference materials and I can forward you the
>> emails if you
>> let me know you are interested.)
>> 
>> Hope everyone is excited.
>> 
>> cheers.
>> dave
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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