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

Tue Jun 25 20:18:40 UTC 2013

PULL PULL PULL! I guess I was mixed up there for a minute. I just made the
request.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can find the pull requests here:
> https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/pulls<https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/pulls?direction=desc&page=1&sort=created&state=closed>
>
> I don't see any from you, either open or closed, so it doesn't look like
> Github thinks you created one.  Perhaps try again?
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
> todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rufus,
>>
>> Did my push request ever come through for an initial entry for US orgs? I
>> sent it over a month ago but never saw it show up in the master branch.
>> See: https://github.com/trobbins/publicbodies/blob/master/data/us.csv
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Tod Robbins
>> Digital Collections Librarian, MLIS
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Tod Robbins
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