[Okfn-ca] Go check out the Census folks

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Thanks to you to James!  it is sooo much better to work with people.

On Monday, October 7, 2013, James McKinney wrote:

> Thanks, Tracey, the website is having issues saving changes to comments,
> which is why my addition to the pollutants comment isn't getting saved.
> (The issue is now tracked here
> https://github.com/okfn/opendatacensus/issues/194 )
>
> Otherwise, I am pleased with the results. Thanks for your efforts and
> attention to detail!
>
> James
>
> On 2013-10-07, at 4:13 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>
> James,
>
> Ok to all, except the npri, one part is bulk another is not so I added
> unsure.
>
> All, should be good now.
>
> check again though as the stuff seems to be changing.
>
> Christian, will you be locking down responses soon to only editors? That
> way we can finalize and be sure we are done.
>
> Also, we did not get much from Diane nor Patricia.  Not sure if they
> remain as editors.  So far, James and I have done the bulk of the work.
>  Diane and Patricia, are you to still be considered as editors?
>
> cheers
> T
>
> On Monday, October 7, 2013, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>
> See inline
>
> On Monday, October 7, 2013, James McKinney wrote:
>
> Please take one last peak.  The only difference based on the thread we
> just exchanged is that I responded unsure to npri and to elections as there
> are conflicting licences and I sent a question to the data.gc.ca site to
> seek clarification and added that to the notes.
>
>
> I don't believe it is a conflict. data.gc.ca is the government's open
> data clearinghouse. Departments/agencies send it data to publish under an
> open license. This removes the need for each department/agency to go
> through the extra effort of re-organizing their websites to have an open
> data page, and the extra effort of changing their individual terms and
> conditions to take open data into account.
>
> Both elections results and emissions of pollutants should answer "yes" for
> "openly licensed".
>
>
> Gobs should change theirmwebsites, ok to yes
>
>
> Otherwise what you proposed was accurate.  Please check the url for gov
> spending to see if ok.
>
>
> Seeing as gov spending is not online, there should be no URL. I've made
> that change.
>
>
> Go it, take it out, I do not know where it came from
>
>
> Three more issues:
>
> - I still don't know why the company register answers "No" to "up-to-date".
>
>
> I kept what you had
>
>
> - Shouldn't emission of pollutants answer "Yes" to "available in bulk"? Is
> the following URL not bulk data?
> http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/3826cfa8-088f-451e-ba2c-a5785e2b25c2
>
> I kept what you had
> I wonder if someone else is going in and changing
>
>
> - My submission had prepended the following text to the current comment,
> but it seems to not have made it through the review: "The National
> Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) is not released in a timely fashion. The
> preliminary, unreviewed 2012 data cannot be downloaded in bulk. The
> reviewed data of prior years can be downloaded in bulk. Environment
> Canada's website's terms of use prohibit commercial reproduction. However,
> data.gc.ca publishes many of the same datasets under an open license."
>
>
> yes to bulk as a result of the text above.
>
>
> I've submitted proposed revisions that would address all these issues.
>
>
> James
>
> Cheers
>
>
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
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