[@OKau] OpenSpending Next: 2015 Roadmap

Tue May 26 10:46:54 UTC 2015

Hi again,
  For my part, I'm super keen. There are quite a few related tools and
projects (some under this banner, some not) that fit together to make a
very exciting and compelling new open data economy. It took me a little
while to learn how they fit together, so for everyone else, here's my cheat
sheet (thanks to Paul for walking me through it all):
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JSON Table Schema: http://dataprotocols.org/json-table-schema/
- defines schemas in JSON that validate CSV files.  [itself based on JSON
Schema]

JTS Kit: https://github.com/okfn/jtskit-py
- tools to support JSON Table Schema, including automatically starting a
skeleton schema from a CSV file.

GoodTables: https://github.com/okfn/goodtables
- some kind of pipeline/workflow stuff once you already have tables in the
right formats. Maybe verifies that they do match the schemas.

Data Packages: http://dataprotocols.org/data-packages/
- a bundling of a JSON Table Schema and one or more data files together so
you have clear metadata describing what's in the data files.

Data Package Manager: https://www.npmjs.com/package/datapackage
<https://www.npmjs.com/package/datapackage>
- command line tools for working with Data Packages

Budget Data Package:
https://github.com/openspending/budget-data-package/blob/master/specification.md
- an example of a data package schema in action

Frictionless Data: http://data.okfn.org/standards
- all of the above fits under this banner of making data more
interoperable.

Open Civic Data Division IDs:
https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids/tree/master/identifiers/country-au
- unique IDs for all administrative regions.
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I've been pretty tied up with VicTripathon <http://victripathon.com> for
the last week or two - rather looking forward to having some free headspace
next week to get back into this.

Steve

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks. There is nothing in particular for co-ordination on OpenSpending
> at this stage. The main things are that:
>
> * People know about OpenSpending in general
> * People know we are doing a new version in order to fix all the things
> we’ve learnt after running OpenSpending for 4 years (and Where Does My
> Money Go before that)
> * If anyone wants to join in, now is the time: contact me, or join the
> discuss.okfn.org forum
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> On 22 May 2015, at 10:09, Mark Gregson <mark.gregson at linkdigital.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Since I'm new to OK and Steven de Costa recently nominated me as an OK
> local tech contact for OK Labs I thought I'd take this opportunity to
> introduce myself!
>
> I've been a web developer for about 15 years, have worked in a variety of
> different environments (government, marketing, tertiary education).  The
> recent history that led me to this position is that I spent some years
> recently working in the Queensland University of Technology library where I
> was technical lead for the university's open access research repository and
> online scholarly journal publishing.  This introduced me to various
> openness movements: open access, open source, and to a lesser extent, open
> data. I recently moved states and joined Link Digital as the technical team
> lead.
>
> As the local tech contact, I am trying to be a conduit for information
> between OK Labs and local members. The OK Labs want to find out about local
> tech stories and goings on and they want you to participate in their
> regular Labs hangouts <http://okfnlabs.org/events/hangouts/>. I'll keep
> an eye on this list for news but feel free to drop me a line at
> mark.gregson at linkdigital.com.au if there's anything you'd like me share
> with the Labs folk.
>
> Paul, is there anything I can do to assist you with coordinating or
> recruiting the locals for OpenSpending? Alex and I could host a Skype call
> if that would be valuable.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> --
>
> *Mark Gregson  |  Team Lead (Development)Link Digital*
>
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> On 21 May 2015 at 19:48, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m co-ordinating the development of the next version of OpenSpending,
>> and currently that means formalising a bunch of ideas that have been
>> kicking around a while, and devising a plan for development in 2015.
>>
>> If you want to contribute to a global spending project, and help us solve
>> really difficult issues like comparative analysis of financial data, as
>> well as more fun stuff like visualising data for humans, then read see the
>> coped mail below.
>>
>> If you do not hack, but you are interested in the opening up of budgets
>> and other financial data, you can still help!
>>
>> User stories and use cases: We are collecting user stories and use cases
>> around open financial data. You can contribute to this thread -
>> https://discuss.okfn.org/t/sharing-spend-data-use-cases/270/5 - or also
>> contact me directly.
>>
>> Specifications: If you are a domain expert in financial data, or, for
>> example, a journalist doing statistical analysis on financial data, you
>> might be interested in helping out on the specifications for what we call
>> Open Spending Data Package:
>> http://labs.openspending.org/osep/osep-04.html. You can also contact me
>> directly on that as well.
>>
>> Lastly, you may just like to signup to the discussion forum to follow
>> what is going on:
>>
>> https://discuss.okfn.org/c/openspending
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> ----
>> (copied from mail to openspending-dev and okfnlabs)
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've booted a simple Jekyll site for all the roadmap and specification
>> work on the new OpenSpending (which I've dubbed OpenSpending Next in
>> absence of anything better to call it):
>>
>> http://labs.openspending.org/next/
>>
>> Important links:
>>
>> • Roadmap (http://labs.openspending.org/next/roadmap.html)
>> • Components and Teams (
>> http://labs.openspending.org/next/roadmap.html#components-and-teams):
>> Work will focus on specific components. This section makes those explicit,
>> provides some ballpark estimates, and provides a way to register interest
>> in joining a team
>>
>> The site is hosted on GitHub Pages:
>>
>> • https://github.com/openspending/next
>>
>> We welcome pull requests and issues to make suggestions on the existing
>> roadmap, and to help out with the specifications - particular user stories
>> and use cases at this stage. Every page has a link for editing, to make
>> this easier.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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