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

Mon Jul 16 09:50:53 UTC 2012

Very cool --

I've added some comments in the pad.

Best,

Sam

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> ###############################################
> *# Ideas*
> ###############################################
>
> *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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Sam Leon
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