[okfn-labs] The future of Nomenklatura

Sun Dec 8 13:17:46 UTC 2013

This is very exciting Friedrich!

One quick question: at the moment if I click "Learn More" on front page
then go beyond "Introduction" to "Getting Started" its blank. Is this
intentional (i.e. docs still to be written) or a bug? Either way this would
be the first place I'd go.

I also think a small screencast or a slightly longer description of what
this does on the front page would be useful e.g.:

For Journalists

Imagine you've got a spreadsheet of government contracts and you'd like to
know who got the most money. You'll usually find the same company spelt ten
different ways thwarting your attempts to get a nice number (Acme Widgets,
Acme Wid. Acme Widgets Inc etc). This is where nomenklatura comes in: it
will help you clean up that dirty data fast ..."

[This is a bit long but you get the idea ...]

For Data Wranglers

...

For Developers

...

Rufus

On 6 December 2013 13:04, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:

> 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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