[okfn-labs] The future of Nomenklatura

Fri Dec 6 13:04:18 UTC 2013

Hey all,

thanks again for the many points of feedback on this. I eventually ended up
merging the changes from the initial fork (ODIS) back into nomenklatura.
There is now an alpha version of the new release at:

http://nk-dev.pudo.org/

The major changes include:

* Merging "entity" and "alias" domain object, there's now just "entity"
with a property to say if its an alias.
* Fully JS-driven frontend
* String matching now happens inside the database (Postgres)
* More intro text (still needs a "Getting started" guide)

This introduces some major breaks in the API and I haven't yet updated the
client library to go with it, but I'm keen to hear what people thing about
this prototype release.

Cheers,

- Friedrich

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 13 November 2013 11:07, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the feedback, Rufus - comments inline.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> At the same time, nomenklatura's notion of datasets prevents the service
>>>> from helping users to discover links across datasets - e.g. a list of all
>>>> EU lobbyists might overlap with those companies competing for EU tenders.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My sense is that the link problem may be something different (though
>>> important) - and being another big chunk might want to be kept separate to
>>> start with.
>>>
>>
>> This, to be honest, is the problem I have right now - so I want to solve
>> it. I can live happily ever after without having journalists use
>> nomenklatura, but if it a) stays a pain to actually clean up the data that
>> has been submitted and b) I can't do cross-dataset matches then I'm stuck
>> on the TED data and similar places.
>>
>
> That's perfect: you're also the "user" and have a use-case right now :-)
>
>
>>  This also makes me wonder: do you have a list of your key user stories
>>> - that might help clarify what things going into the minimal viable
>>> enhancement and which don't.
>>>
>>
>> Hm, let me have a go. I'm going to assume just one user group, which is
>> advanced data users - other groups like journalists seem less interested in
>> this problem still, and also its fun to do something for experts once in a
>> while :) Doesn't preclude us from unlocking new user groups later...
>>
>
> Sounds good and these are excellent. Could we put these in a pad<http://pad.okfn.org> or
> gdoc so they were editable / commentable and we could add values.
>
>
>> * As a data expert, I want to submit my data to the service, either
>> through an API, in bulk (CSV) or, in extreme cases, manually through a UI
>> so that I can represent my data.
>>
>> * As a data expert, I want to submit data through the Refine API, so that
>> I have a local UI from which I can upload data as well.
>>
>
> [...]
>
> Rufus
>
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