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

[Daniel Dietrich]

Dear all,

www.bigclean.org is online and has now some very very basic content.

I have added Antti and Jildrich to be Editors of the website. Other volunteers are very welcome.

I also re-discovered this wiki page

	http://wiki.okfn.org/TheBigClean

and I think we should communicate it as the main site for coordination of the cities since it's much easier to access and edit for everyone.

So, let's move ahead and quickly add content to the wiki / wp site and make this a real great event!

Regards
Daniel



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On 04.03.2011, at 10:09, Daniel Dietrich wrote:

> 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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>>>>> 
>>>> 
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