[okfn-labs] Update on PublicBodies.org - a URL for every part of Government

Fri May 3 08:55:38 UTC 2013

Hi Rufus,

Should I fork https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies, add data and make
a pull request like the normal GitHub workflow?

Is http://publicbodies.org/ based on ckan? What about
http://datahub.io/dataset/uk-public-bodies?
Can people help updating data easily?
Is there any API for data query rather than JSON url and CSV download
(I think ckan has)?

BTW, I have a list of journal feeds from http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/
several years ago and they've stopped releasing it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjfpjwzLd5bUdEY5MF9KUmROaW1WZklOYmoweEtZakE&usp=sharing
I'd like to have a crowdsourcing platform to keep it updating.

For not so big data, Google Drive is not a bad way for crowdsourcing,
but I think OKFN should have the open source solution. Maybe
http://crowdcrafting.org/ + http://datahub.io/.

Liang

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Shen,
>
> This is brilliant! Do you need somewhere to post it or can you put it
> up somewhere? (We'll probably host this medium term on the labs s3
> data repo at http://assets.okfnlabs.org/ if we feel it is too big for
> github ... [1])
>
> Could I also suggest you open an issue and add yourself to it?
>
> Rufus
>
> [1]: we would like to give access to assets.okfnlabs.org (even just a
> tmp directory) but have not yet worked out an effective way to do
> permissions for random folks
>
> On 2 May 2013 16:47, SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> * More data - other jurisdictions (we only cover EU, UK and Germany) +
>>> descriptions for the bodies (this could be a nice crowdcrafting app)
>>
>> I have a 67.4 MB csv file (need to reset the format) for China.
>>
>> Liang