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

Thu Jun 27 18:39:45 UTC 2013

Duly noted. I'm not quite technically-abled enough to pull down all the
info from those government APIs so I may need a little help with that
eventually. Otherwise, I'm just manually entering the data.

Tod

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Todd,
>
> This is great and I've merged the initial pull though I've just noticed
> there are some issues re missing "key" column:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/pull/39
>
> This is actually required - something that should be made (much) clearer
> :-)
>
> Rufus
>
>
> On 25 June 2013 21:18, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>
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