[@OKau] OpenSpending Next: 2015 Roadmap

Tue May 26 12:45:56 UTC 2015

> On 26 May 2015, at 13:46, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes! And, there is more to come :).

> 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/ <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 <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 <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/ <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 <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 <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 <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.

Aside from the call for OpenSpending, if anyone wants to get involved in any of the above projects (or more generally, the momentum that is building around Frictionless Data tooling and standards at Open Knowledge), **please** contact me. 

We’ve made a start, and there is so much more to do! For further context, you may like to read up on the vision:

http://data.okfn.org/vision <http://data.okfn.org/vision>

Best,

Paul

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> 
> Steve
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> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com <mailto: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 <http://discuss.okfn.org/> forum
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
>> On 22 May 2015, at 10:09, Mark Gregson <mark.gregson at linkdigital.com.au <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>> 
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>> 
>> On 21 May 2015 at 19:48, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com <mailto: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 <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 <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 <https://discuss.okfn.org/c/openspending>
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
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>> (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/ <http://labs.openspending.org/next/>
>> 
>> Important links:
>> 
>> 	• Roadmap (http://labs.openspending.org/next/roadmap.html <http://labs.openspending.org/next/roadmap.html>)
>> 	• Components and Teams (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 <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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