[open-government] Plans for http://opengovernmentdata.org/?

Tue Mar 22 18:26:44 UTC 2011

Anyone up for a virtual get together next week (e.g. Monday evening,
Tuesday or Wednesday) to have a go at getting this ship shape? ;-)

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear Jonathan, all,
>
> I agree that this is of high priority and we can make some improvements very quickly. I can spend one day on it later this week.
>
> On 21.03.2011, at 16:11, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> I would say that this is a high priority right now - so people have a
>> clearer landing page that:
>>
>>  *explains what open government data is and why it is interesting
>>  * links to the open government data bibliography [1] (an update on this soon)
>>  * links to opendatasearch.org
>>  * links to lists of catalogues/competitions etc (these need updating!)
>>  * map showing open government data initiatives around the world
>>  * list showing upcoming events (can we use an external service for
>> this and pull in via RSS?)
>>  * list showing open government data related news
>>  * pull in #opendata Twitter stream
>>  * etc
>
> In addition to this we also need to think about the tool / technology. It is very clear that for the Open Government Data mapping project we want to collect information about
>
> * OGD initiatives
> * OGD Events
> * OGD competitions
> * OGD catalogues
>
> And we need this information accessible in different ways, such as:
>
> * single item (url)
> * list of items
> * on a map (geo)
> * in a calendar (time)
> * syndicated (rss)
>
> Please see http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/government/mapping for more details
>
> Right now we use google docs google calendar and hand made KML files witch is very inefficient (apart from being using non open services like Google)
>
> I am looking at http://grical.org/ its open source and python. We have allready been in contact with the developer Ivan Villanueva.
>
> GriCal allows users to add "events" that can have different views like cal, list and map organised by user or by tags
>
> I would like to explore how we tweak grical to use it a the tool for decentralised OGD mapping. The events, initiatives, organisations could - once added to grical be include as item, list, calendar or map using iframe or the like into the Wordpress installation.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
>>
>> Anyone up for having a bit of a hack session on this in next few weeks?
>
> count me in
>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/54/open-government-data-bibliography-project
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Dietrich
>> <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> Thanks for bringing this up again!
>>>
>>> On 19.03.2011, at 23:26, Tim McNamara wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are there any plans for http://opengovernmentdata.org/? I think the domain could be re-purposed from highlighting the events of last November to something more generic.
>>>
>>> Absolutely this has been the plan for quite a wile now, wee:
>>>
>>>        http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/government/mapping
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some things we could include:
>>>>
>>>>  - links to and/org excerpts of academic paper & grey literature
>>>>  - case studies
>>>>  - contact people
>>>>  - introduction to some of the technical tools (cf opendatamanual.org)
>>>
>>> all of these are very good points and should definitely find its way to the wiki / website
>>>
>>> @Tim: would you bee happy to take an more active role in getting this done?
>>>
>>> I am also looking to free some of my time to focus more on this.
>>>
>>> Best greetings
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tim McNamara
>>>> @timClicks
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