[OKFN-EN] Open Data Day on Floods, Open Sustainability Portal Idea, Flood Data List, Cleanweb March on Flooding

Mon Feb 17 16:29:20 UTC 2014

Here's a more-or-less comprehensive list of the Environment Agency's
flood-related datasets, with links to metadata:

http://www.owenboswarva.com/opendata/EA/ea_flood_datasets.htm

Mainly for purposes of context and agitation, as only a small number of the
peripheral datasets are currently open data.

-- Owen Boswarva

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Jack Townsend <jack at jacktownsend.net>wrote:

Hey Rufus
>
> Great that floods are on the agenda for Open Data Day, can follow on with
> the energy at the #floodhack event yesterday. Will get it announced at the
> new Climate Change Coders event on Wednesday.
>
> As for the flood data sources, there's a good list from the event here<https://hackpad.com/Data-APIs-for-floodhack-zd2MTv6chas>. The
> data the Environment Agency "opened" yesterday is just for a three month
> period but it's a step in the right direction, and I'm sure all the
> attention will develop this conversation.
>
> Hope to make it on Saturday, have a relevant idea emerging from my
> research: a global environmental- and sustainability- focussed CKAN portal
> aggregating metadata from all the others. Described below, will add to the
> list.
>
> Oh, and we're probably going to refocus Cleanweb London 24 March<http://www.meetup.com/Cleanweb-London/> onto
> using the Web to tackle climate adaptation and flooding.
>
> Cheers
> Jack
>
>
> Open Sustainability Data Portal
>
> Much of the data that is critical to moving towards a more sustainable
> society and combatting climate change is scattered across the internet on
> different open data portals and websites. This places substantial obstacles
> in the way of people looking to drive forward the sustainability agenda.
> There is an opportunity to create a global sustainability super-portal as a
> gateway to all this data, wherever it is. The repository will be based on
> the leading open source open data repository software CKAN, including code
> from the http://publicdata.eu/<http://publicdata.eu/> version which
> allows the mirroring of other repositories.
>
>
>
>
> On 17 Feb 2014, at 08:44, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>  wrote:
>
>  Hi Jack,
>
>  This is great. There are also plans to have a focus on Flood data at the
> London Open Data Event this coming Saturday, see:
>
>  http://en.okfn.org/open-data-day-2014/
>
>  Rufus
>
>
> On 14 February 2014 21:03, Jack Townsend <jack at jacktownsend.net> wrote:
>
>>   *From: *Joshua March <josh at conversocial.com>
>>  *Subject: **Your country needs you: #FloodHack this Sunday!*
>>  *Date: *14 February 2014 20:54:24 GMT
>>  *To: *<open-sustainability at lists.okfn.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>>  The government called a meeting today with a number of major UK tech
>> companies to discuss what the tech and developer community could do to help
>> with the flood crisis engulfing the UK.
>>
>>  As part of this, the Environment Agency agreed to open up real-time
>> data on flood levels/status, mapped across the UK, so that developers can
>> utilize the data for free (at least for the next three months).
>>
>>  We're organizing a hackathon THIS SUNDAY in Shoreditch, London, to
>> build apps on top of the data to try and help people keep up to date with
>> the issues in their area (or areas they're traveling to), and get the data
>> they need on how they can get help, how they can volunteer etc.
>>
>>  There are more details below, and on the hackpad page:
>> https://hackpad.com/UK-Flood-Help-February-2014-QFpKPE5Wy6s
>>
>>  This is obviously super short notice, but an amazing opp to build
>> something that could actually help thousands of people. Google have agreed
>> to host it, and will be sending developers, as will Facebook, Microsoft and
>> many other start-ups in the area (including my own).
>>
>>  Please spread the word, and come down if you can make it!
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  Calling all developers!
>>
>>  We have been hit by the worst flooding and weather the UK has seen in
>> our lifetimes. Getting the right information to people about the problems
>> affecting particular areas, and the right places to turn to help (or for
>> information on how THEY can help volunteer) is crucial. The government has
>> near real-time data on flooding levels and alerts, mapped out across the
>> entire country, which they want to put to the best possible use. Following
>> a meeting called today at Number 10 with leading technology companies, the
>> Environment Agency, the Government Digital Service, the Open Data Institute
>> and the Cabinet Office are working to open up this data to the public for
>> the next three months, allowing developers to build innovative applications
>> that can help those affected by the flooding.
>>
>>  This Sunday at 10am, join developers from Google, Facebook, Twitter,
>> Conversocial, Datasift, Mother, Taskhub and more for a hackathon, hosted by
>> Tech CityUK at Google Campus in Shoreditch, where the Open Data Institute
>> will share the flood level data with developers and be on hand to help
>> throughout the day. The Cabinet Office will be choosing the most useful
>> applications demoed on the day to be promoted to flood victims across the
>> country.
>>
>>  Please register for the hackathon here<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flood-hack-appeal-tickets-8102754557>
>> .
>>
>>  Your country needs you!
>>
>>  ------
>>
>>  Hopefully see you Sunday,
>>
>>  Josh
>>     *Joshua March*
>> Founder & CEO, Conversocial
>>
>> e: josh at conversocial.com | w: www.conversocial.com
>> Find me on: Twitter <http://twitter.com/joshuamarch> LinkedIn<http://twitter.com/joshuamarch>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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