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

Wed Oct 31 08:58:21 UTC 2012

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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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