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

Thu Mar 3 18:55:25 UTC 2011

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
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>
>
>
> 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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