[okfn-discuss] Oil Reporter data?

Sat May 29 20:25:50 UTC 2010

On 29 May 2010 14:59, Graham Higgins <gjh at bel-epa.com> wrote:
> On 29 May 2010, at 11:33, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> This looks interesting:
>>
>>  http://oilreporter.org/
>>
>> Says its open data. Can anyone find
>
>> (i) a data license / terms of use,

I've created a ckan package: <http://ckan.net/package/oilreporter>

> TOS for the web site and "service", FWIW
> http://oilreporter.org/tos

Yes, but that seems all about the rights contributors give
oilreporter.org/crisis commons. Nothing much on license for those
wanting to use collected data AFAICT (though only scanned this
relatively briefly -- that ToS is long!)

>> (ii) download URL, or
>
> API + RSS feed:
>
> http://oilreporter.org/api

Right, but no bulk download.

>> (iii) contact details -- to ask about (i)/(ii)?
>
>
> http://twitter.com/brendanlim
> http://twitter.com/cselmer
> http://twitter.com/ssoper
> http://twitter.com/jonathannelson
>
> Collectively ...

So we can ping one of them and ask! Sounds like
http://isitopendata.org/ needs to get an interface to twitter ...

> http://intridea.com/
>
> Developer sign-up:
>
> http://oilreporter.org/signup
>
> HTH

Very much so :)

Rufus