[okfn-discuss] [ckan-discuss] Request: Volunteers to curate open/public data sources to support Hurricane Sandy recovery

Thu Nov 1 17:03:32 UTC 2012

Fantastic! Thanks everyone for your offers of assistance.

Tim McNamara
@timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> | timmcnamara.co.nz

On 2 November 2012 03:11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> FYI:
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2012/11/01/hurricane-sandy-and-open-data/
>
> J.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> In case anyone is interested in contributing to this, there is a bunch of
>> data listed here:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xmKiUVy2vZbluQbtItbN8WMQXPiWCt7f8DVKJe6_w0c/edit
>>
>> Other useful links here:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SGcfQz13ce4FfB-QHKF3WLwxHoCRGBouuvZn-3aoX0k/edit#heading=h.1yf2bkk04op4
>>
>> And an interesting article here:
>>
>>
>> http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/10/real-time-data-storm-in-hurricane-sandy-open-data.html
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't have tons of time available, specially next weekend, but I'll
>>> be happy to help curating a group on the DataHub with Sandy related
>>> datasets.
>>>
>>> I've created this group to get started:
>>>
>>> http://thedatahub.org/group/sandy-response-data
>>>
>>> Right now everybody can edit it and add datasets to it, this can be
>>> changed later if necessary. @Tim if you send me your datahub user I
>>> can add you as administrator.
>>> Note that datasets can be part of more than one group, so perhaps it
>>> will make sense to create groups for each event if that's helps.
>>>
>>> Note that if there is tabular data available it can be imported to the
>>> datastore [1], providing an API that can be useful to build mashups or
>>> apps.
>>>
>>>
>>> Adrià
>>>
>>> [1] http://ckan.org/2012/10/26/introducing-the-new-datastore/
>>>
>>> On 31 October 2012 08:58, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> > (cc'ing ckan-discuss)
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Tim McNamara <
>>> paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hello all,
>>> >>
>>> >> This weekend, several groups of volunteers around the world will
>>> gather to
>>> >> undertake projects to support the hurricane recovery efforts[0]. The
>>> OKFN
>>> >> community has a distinct ability to help here, in particular it has
>>> lots of
>>> >> knowledge about datahub.io.
>>> >>
>>> >> There are bound to be hundreds of disparate spreadsheets, databases
>>> and
>>> >> other information sources spring up over the next few days. It would
>>> be
>>> >> excellent if they could be indexed as appropriately tagged. That will
>>> foster
>>> >> discovery and reuse greatly.
>>> >>
>>> >> Would anyone be interested in helping out with this?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Tim McNamara
>>> >>
>>> >> [0] http://crisiscommons.org/2012/10/30/sandycrisiscamp/
>>> >>
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