[ckan-dev] update on the update

[Mark Wainwright]

Hi Fran, that would be great! I'll send you an e-mail off list.

Mark


On 18/06/2013, fwolanczyk at cs.com <fwolanczyk at cs.com> wrote:
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>
> hello adri,
> i would love to post to the CKAN blog about my project , please let me know
> how to do this!
> thank you,
> fran w
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> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:58:38 +0100
> From: Adri? Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] update on the update
> To: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>,	Mark
> 	Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org>
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> 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)!
>
> Adri?
>
> 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!
>>
>>
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