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

Fri Nov 2 11:50:03 UTC 2012

Will try hard to join the efforts (on Sunday :/). Also got a non-techie
interested, hopefully there will be something useful they can do as well.

Thanks for telling us about this.

Emanuil

On 2 November 2012 04:09, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:

> Further to this, could those people who are interested in assisting with
> this effort please sign up as a "remote helper" at this page?
> http://crisiscampakl-sandy.eventbrite.co.nz/
>
> That will greatly assist with coordinating all of this goodwill :D
>
> Tim McNamara
> @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks> | timmcnamara.co.nz
>
>
>
> On 2 November 2012 06:03, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>wrote:
>
>> 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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