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

Fri Nov 2 04:09:24 GMT 2012

Further to this, could those people who are interested in assisting with
this effort please sign up as a "remote helper" at this page?
http://crisiscampakl-sandy.eventbrite.co.nz/

That will greatly assist with coordinating all of this goodwill :D

Tim McNamara
@timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> | timmcnamara.co.nz

On 2 November 2012 06:03, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:

> Fantastic! Thanks everyone for your offers of assistance.
>
> Tim McNamara
> @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> | timmcnamara.co.nz
>
>
>
> On 2 November 2012 03:11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGcfQz13ce4FfB-QHKF3WLwxHoCRGBouuvZn-3aoX0k/edit#heading=h.1yf2bkk04op4
>>>
>>> And an interesting article here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/10/real-time-data-storm-in-hurricane-sandy-open-data.html
>>>
>>> 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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