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

[Rufus Pollock]

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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