[okfn-discuss] OKFN & Environment Data

Fri Oct 12 11:31:50 UTC 2012

Hi,

On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 12:23, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM, James Smith <james at floppy.org.uk (mailto:james at floppy.org.uk)> wrote:
> > I can't speak for AMEE (any more), but this is unlikely to come from within the company. Adoption of the data by external organisations interested in openness is the only way it's likely to happen at this point, unfortunately. 
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> Do you think that AMEE might be able to provide pointers to relevant URLs where someone else could find descriptions of / links to the openly licensed data they (re-)publish?
The data is released with all sources and documentation in https://github.com/AMEE/datasets. This content is all searchable via http://discover.amee.com, but there's a lot of it! There is an open format for computable datasets (written to support an open AMEE effort) at https://github.com/spatchcock/calcJSON and a conversion tool from AMEE to calcJSON at https://github.com/Floppy/connery, which was written at the OKFestival during the greenhackathon.

However, that's all probably *completely* impenetrable to someone without knowledge of what AMEE does and how it structures its data, so the first step would be to get something written up explaining it all.
> I believe we're planning a dedicated sprint focusing on energy, the environment and climate data with OKFN Labs. This is based on work we did with Europe's Energy last year: http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/index.html
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Yes, Velichka was telling me about this; sounds good.

cheers,
James 

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