[okfn-labs] public bodies project and documentation

Tue Jul 16 15:25:47 UTC 2013

On 15 July 2013 18:49, Augusto Herrmann <augusto.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just created the pull request at
> https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/pull/42 , which adds the Brazilian
> federal public bodies of the executive branch.
>

Brilliant - and merged!

> Now I have even more questions about the meaning of the columns. I had
> thought that "parent" and "parent_key" referred to when a body was somehow
> subordinate or hierarchically placed under another body. But the
> application adds the label "Parent category", which seems to imply
> otherwise.
>

That's a typo in web interface. We should just rename to Parent
Organization / Body.

> And I still don't get how categories are supposed to work, as the datasets
> lack any examples whatsoever of categories.
>

Agreed. See previous email. Please add comments and suggestions on this
point in: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/29

Rufus

*

*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/attachments/20130716/ca114a5b/attachment-0002.html>