[okfn-labs] nomenklatura: web-based, interactive data linking service

Wed Jul 18 13:45:34 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 03:37:58PM +0200, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
> I've been doing a bit of hacking over the last few days on a data
> linking service called nomenklatura. The idea is very simple: you have
> a list of reference values (e.g. Parliamentarians, Countries,
> Lobbyists) and want to match messy forms from raw data against these
> values. The service offers a web interface for linking data manually
> using a ranked list of candidates.
> 
> Demo: http://nomenklatura.okfnlabs.org/offenesparlament
> Source: https://github.com/pudo/nomenklatura
> 
> I'll be using this for OffenesParlament and EU lobby stuff, let me
> know if there are any other use cases you can think of! The next
> features I was thinking about is merging reference values, a refine
> API and CSV up- and downloads.

wow. i have lot's of these. would be very useful to have such a public
service!

> p.s. First one to mention tests will win a teapot.

tests? what you mean? (do i qualify for the teapot with this?)

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