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

Wed Oct 31 12:36:00 GMT 2012

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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