[okfn-labs] PublicBodies.org update - revamped site and more

Mon Jun 24 14:40:30 UTC 2013

Hey,

This is awesome progress, really looks nice and with the search function, I
believe it'll really become a tool! As for the search engine, I think it's
worth checking out the amazon simple search thing as a no-maintenance,
non-google solution.

Cheers, friedrich

On Monday, June 24, 2013, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to give folks a quick update on progress with PublicBodies.org
> (to follow up the last update<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2013-May/000868.html>
> ).
>
> *1. http://PublicBodies.org/ now a proper webapp (and much shinier)*
> *
> *
> PublicBodies.org is now a simple node.js webapp<https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies> running
> on heroku. It also has a much shiner
> *
> *
> This improvements is *all thanks to Labs member Rowan Crawford<http://okfnlabs.org/members/wombleton/>
> * - huge props to Rowan for his contribution here!
>
> Next up in site improvements will be adding search<https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/3>
> .
>
> *2. Pushing (and pulling) data to Nomenklatura.org<http://nomenklatura.okfnlabs.org/>
> *
>
> We want to push the list of entities to nomenklatura to allow people to do
> easy reconciliation and we'd also like to pull stuff if the list gets
> updated. (More details in this issue<https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/2>
> )
>
> As an example, David Read has pushed up UK public bodies:
> http://nomenklatura.okfnlabs.org/uk-public-bodies
>
> *3. More data!*
>
> We've got a bunch of additional data to go in contributed by a whole set
> of folks<https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues?direction=desc&labels=Data&page=1&sort=updated&state=open>
> .
>
> We've partially blocked on this as we are thinking about a (small) rework
> of the schema <https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/29> - in
> particular, to align more with popolo work! Once that is done we should
> have several more jurisdictions going in.
>
> As always, contributions are very welcome whether in the form of new data,
> suggestions for improvements or coding on the site (there are plenty of
> open issues <https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues>).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
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