[okfn-labs] Ideas for simple mini-projects we could do - RFC

Sat Jul 14 13:08:48 UTC 2012

Hi All,

I've been thinking a bit about how we could plan mini-projects be that to
build stuff or do an "investigation" of some kind.

I've made some notes in an etherpad here: http://labs.okfnpad.org/ideas (also
inlined below).

Comments, additional idea suggestions, expressions of interest all welcome
:-)

Rufus

*# June**/July** 2012*

1. *Pull together ideas for mini-apps or investigations to do*. These
should be things achievable in 1-2 weeks (perhaps using max 2-4 person
weeks of effort) and would be something people would interested in doing a
sprint on.

2. *Choose idea**s to work on.* Once we have ideas we choose 1/2 to work on
with a specific deadline and window of time when we work on it. (Can have
more if enough people interested - probably if 2-3 *committed* people per
item)

3. *We do it. *May include a one day virtual hackday along the way.

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*# Ideas*
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*Please add your own to the initial examples provided here!*

*## Apps*

*### openliterature.net = textus + gutenizer*

http://openliterature.net/ - Gutenberg texts in Textus or similar

*### texts.annotateit.org - upload a text and get annotating*

* would this be better using textus (+ git(hub) / gists)

*### Pybossa*

  * transcriber
  * reconciler

*### wikipedia.js - js script to get data on wikipedia articles via dbpedia
...*

Connect to dbpedia virtuoso endpoint and give back key info.

*### timeliner -
**https://github.com/okfn/timeliner*<https://github.com/okfn/timeliner>

*## Investigations*

*### Greek crisis*

* What's going on?
* Connection with OpenSpending

*### Olympics (spending etc)*

  * Extend to Rio + World Cup (??)

*### Bailii scrape*

Large amount of commercial litigation takes place in London.

*### Financial Crisis*

What happened, who won, who lost out.

Application of timeliner etc.

*### Leeveson enquiry*

* What would we do: full text search, entity extraction
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