[EU-lobby-data] Fwd: Re: Design work for NGO Tactical Tech

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

It is starting from scratch (i.e. discarding all of the lobby API/data
cleansing work). I'm not sure why they're so dead-set on doing it this way,
to be honest.

- Fr.


On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Timo Lange <timo.lange at lobbycontrol.de>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm just forwarding this to you to keep you up-to-date. Friedrich, could
> you answer their questions? Most of these, Tactical should now
> themselves...
>
> It feels a bit like starting from the scratch to me.
>
> Best, Timo
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: Re: Design work for NGO Tactical Tech
> Datum: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:52:46 +0100
> Von: Mathilde <mathilde at tacticaltech.org>
> An: Robert Dunn <robert.dunn at curveagency.com>
> Kopie (CC): Craig Perks <craig.perks at curveagency.com>,  Peter McClory
> <peter.mcclory at curveagency.com>, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>,  Timo Lange <timo.lange at lobbycontrol.de>
>
> Super that you got there!
> I let Friedrich and Timo here in cc to answer your questions below - and
> then we can start getting the ball rolling.
>
> Of course, we completely understand that there will be more questions
> and that you need as much info and detail as possible in order to get
> this going, we all really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks Rob,
>
> Mathilde
>
>
>
> On 12/7/12 11:44 AM, Robert Dunn wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mathilde,
> >
> > Good news!
> >
> > The two XML files from the
> >
> http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/statistics.do?action=prepareView&locale=en#en
> > page that Friedrich has provided us with are usable.
> >
> > To get the site working our aim is to set up Drupal to pull these two
> > XML feeds from this site on a regular basis and populate the content
> > into the website framework however to ensure this is a feasible
> > process we would need you to confirm the following…
> >
> > ·Do we have permission to pull this data directly from the site? – If
> > we don’t then we need to be given another location which we can import
> > these feeds from
> >
> > ·Are the fields and formats going to always stay the same? – If these
> > are changed its possible that this will break the site so we ideally
> > need the data to stay as static as possible
> >
> > ·Are the XML files likely to be removed or moved to another location?
> > – If the site can’t connect to these feeds this will also break the site
> >
> > ·Does the data across both XML sites match up perfectly? (i.e. is
> > ‘Telefonica, S.A.’ in one file also called ‘Telefonica, S.A.’ on the
> > other) – If there are any differentiations then the links won’t be
> > appropriately shown.
> >
> > ·Are we going to need to store ‘old data’ as well as ‘new data’? (i.e.
> > if the XML feeds are updated to 2013’s data would we still need 2012’s
> > data to be available or will this be made redundant) – this is
> > important as if changes
> >
> > Upon answering these questions we can get the proposal contract
> > finalised for you to sign and then once we’ve received sign-off on
> > this we start our ‘define’ process which consists of producing
> > documentation covering user stories, the technical aspects of the
> > project and wireframing (all of which will be documented within the
> > proposal contract).
> >
> > As you can appreciate we want to make a site that works consistently
> > so we want to ensure that we spot as many potential issues now so that
> > we will avoid any pitfalls when it comes to building the project
> > therefore please be aware we may have a lot of other questions that
> > come out when we start the define stage.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
>
>
>
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