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

Mon Jul 23 10:32:07 UTC 2012

Hi,

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Friedrich Lindenberg <
> friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Daniel,
> >
> > Nick and I were discussing this app during hack the government day,
> > but my understanding is that it never got to be really functional. The
> > problem with using PyBossa in this case is that you really do need
> > quite a lot of backend. Of course you can split out the matching UI,
> > but thats just a very small aspect of the app and you'd still need an
> > API for matching as well. At the same time, running it off pyBossa
> > means you have two UIs, two auth systems and two representations of
> > the same objects (Tasks in pyBossa, Links in NK).
> >
> > At the same time, I hope that we'll soon use pyBossa to gather more
> > info on the recon entities soon :)

Actually something like this was my first thought as well. I'd like to have
a publicly available interface allowing to crowdsource cleanup of large
datasets. 

Mihi

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