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

Thu Mar 3 14:37:27 UTC 2011

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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