[okfn-discuss] Easy Open Data

Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpaert at okfn.org
Wed Mar 13 20:52:26 UTC 2013


I'm willing to put it some coding as well if you put it on a public git :)

Pieter

-from phone

On 3/13/13, Emanuil Tolev <emanuil.tolev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Do you plan to publish the source code? I'm going on a train tomorrow
> morning and felt the urge to clone the repo of this app and include support
> for CSV, instead of doing all the other work I should be doing :P.
>
> I presume you regard the code as quite "alpha" so at what stage you might
> want to release it is obviously up to you.
> (I wouldn't personally mind though. If you're running it publicly it's
> /usually/ good enough to hack on.)
>
> Greetings,
> Emanuil
>
> On 13 March 2013 18:53, Craig Russell <craig at craig-russell.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Oh yes! This is only the beginning.
>>
>> At present it only supports publishing data in XML, I plan to include
>> RDF,
>> JSON and CSV formats.
>> I will expand the capacity for meta data and provide a search facility to
>> make it easy to explore the data that's being published.
>> I'm also looking to provide analytics for feeds, so data owners can learn
>> how their data is being used.
>>
>> It really is early days though (I only launched it on Monday) and the
>> response so far has been wonderful.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> -Craig
>>
>>
>> On 13 March 2013 16:28, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I love it!
>>>
>>> Thanks Craig! Are you planning on developing this even further? I would
>>> love to see more features towards meta-data and versioning.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Pieter
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/13/2013 05:12 PM, Craig Russell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I thought you might be interested in a project I've been working on to
>>>> make publishing open data easier.
>>>>
>>>> http://easyopendata.com
>>>>
>>>> It enables you to publish custom XML feeds using data from your Google
>>>> spreadsheets.
>>>>
>>>> Feeds are publicly listed on your profile and automatically updated
>>>> when
>>>> the spreadsheet is.
>>>>
>>>> I believe that there's a lot of valuable information out there buried
>>>> away in spreadsheets, and that we can all benefit greatly from getting
>>>> this
>>>> data in to the public domain.
>>>>
>>>> This is my offering to help solve that problem.
>>>>
>>>> It's easy to try, just sign in with your Google Account.
>>>>
>>>> http://easyopendata.com
>>>>
>>>> If you've got any questions please do get in touch.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
>>>> -Craig
>>>>
>>>> craig at craig-russell.co.uk
>>>> <mailto:craig at craig-russell.**co.uk<craig at craig-russell.co.uk>
>>>> >
>>>> @craig552uk
>>>>
>>>>
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