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

[Daniel Dietrich]

Dear Antti and others,

www.bigclean.org is part of the Word Press multisite of the OKFN. If you would like contribute with content, etc you will need to register as a "community member" at the OKFN

	http://okfn.org/register/

I will then add you as a editor to the Big Clean. Please ping me of list once you have registered or if you need any assistance.

I have started with a theme (I hope you like it) but encounter a problem with the images. More precisely with timthumb.php that makes tumbnails and rezises images. I had to change :

	$src = preg_replace("/\.\.+\//", "", $src);
	to
	$src = preg_replace("/files/", "/wp-content/blogs.dir/26/files/", $src);

Just in case that someone has similar problems. Now it works and we can start adding content.

Regards
Daniel

On 03.03.2011, at 19:55, Antti Poikola wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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