[ckan-dev] update on the update

Wed Jun 12 09:58:38 UTC 2013

Hi Frances,

Congratulations, an excellent example of Citizen generated Open Data,
and a really good showcase of the datastore capabilities.

Would you be up for a short post to be published on the CKAN blog?

Good work Frances (and Dominik)!

Adrià

On 11 June 2013 17:29,  <fwolanczyk at cs.com> wrote:
>
> hi all,
> i would like to update you on my progress, and happily tell you i made the
> deadline,
> http://nycbigapps.com/project/296/Citizen-Reporter-citizens-report-to-NYC-public-data
>
> i would like to thank Dominik Moritz for working with me to diagnose the
> problems.
>
> this project is an iPhone app, written in objective -c
> once i conquered the http "POST" request, the problems were that somehow, in
> my haste "insert" got changed to "upsert", the latter needing a unique id,
> but not what i needed, as my app merely "adds" a row to the dataset.
> also, my json data dictionary was backwards.
>
> basically, what the app does is get meta data (from a csv dataset) from our
> datastore in rdf - parse out the columns and create a table "input" form to
> be able to add data to the dataset chosen  -
> for example - here in New York, we have "311" to call to report city
> problems - my app gives an interface to "post" to 311 (among other datasets)
>
> an important key to my project is the selecting and storing of an image (not
> implemented yet)
> i was very excited to see BlobData supported, as at my last job at Applied
> Visions, for the MeerCAT project , i successfully stored an image in blob
> format, also at Chyron we dealt with encoded images, so i was somewhat
> confident it was possible.
>
> feel free to comment, (if possible) on the site as to what a great idea it
> is... (i think so)
> and thanks to NYC Facets for their innovative work in this area - without
> which, my work would not have been possible!!
> I am committed to making our NYC data even better for all citizens -
>
> feel free to contact me on Linked In or personally (Frances Caruso
> Wolanczyk) with any opportunities!!!
> im interested!
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ckan-dev mailing list
> ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev
> Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/ckan-dev
>