[ckan-discuss] [okfn-discuss] Request: Volunteers to curate open/public data sources to support Hurricane Sandy recovery

Thu Nov 1 14:11:50 GMT 2012

FYI:

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/11/01/hurricane-sandy-and-open-data/

J.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> In case anyone is interested in contributing to this, there is a bunch of
> data listed here:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xmKiUVy2vZbluQbtItbN8WMQXPiWCt7f8DVKJe6_w0c/edit
>
> Other useful links here:
>
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGcfQz13ce4FfB-QHKF3WLwxHoCRGBouuvZn-3aoX0k/edit#heading=h.1yf2bkk04op4
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> And an interesting article here:
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> http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/10/real-time-data-storm-in-hurricane-sandy-open-data.html
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> J.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't have tons of time available, specially next weekend, but I'll
>> be happy to help curating a group on the DataHub with Sandy related
>> datasets.
>>
>> I've created this group to get started:
>>
>> http://thedatahub.org/group/sandy-response-data
>>
>> Right now everybody can edit it and add datasets to it, this can be
>> changed later if necessary. @Tim if you send me your datahub user I
>> can add you as administrator.
>> Note that datasets can be part of more than one group, so perhaps it
>> will make sense to create groups for each event if that's helps.
>>
>> Note that if there is tabular data available it can be imported to the
>> datastore [1], providing an API that can be useful to build mashups or
>> apps.
>>
>>
>> Adrià
>>
>> [1] http://ckan.org/2012/10/26/introducing-the-new-datastore/
>>
>> On 31 October 2012 08:58, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > (cc'ing ckan-discuss)
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Tim McNamara <
>> paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> This weekend, several groups of volunteers around the world will
>> gather to
>> >> undertake projects to support the hurricane recovery efforts[0]. The
>> OKFN
>> >> community has a distinct ability to help here, in particular it has
>> lots of
>> >> knowledge about datahub.io.
>> >>
>> >> There are bound to be hundreds of disparate spreadsheets, databases and
>> >> other information sources spring up over the next few days. It would be
>> >> excellent if they could be indexed as appropriately tagged. That will
>> foster
>> >> discovery and reuse greatly.
>> >>
>> >> Would anyone be interested in helping out with this?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Tim McNamara
>> >>
>> >> [0] http://crisiscommons.org/2012/10/30/sandycrisiscamp/
>> >>
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