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

Fri May 10 14:06:30 UTC 2013

Here is the data for China (in Chinese). It contains more information
than the UK example, so I'm thinking may be ckan is a better option.
http://ubercheckout.com/cn.csv

Liang

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 3 May 2013 09:55, SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rufus,
>>
>> Should I fork https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies, add data and make
>> a pull request like the normal GitHub workflow?
>
> That was my original plan but given how much data some people seem to
> have I'm wondering. If the file is say > 5mb i suggest posting outside
> of github for the moment and we do a first review there (for example,
> with recent discussion re Italian dataset which was ~6mb it turned out
> we can perhaps drop the list of every school (that's a separate useful
> dataset of course!).
>
>> Is http://publicbodies.org/ based on ckan? What about
>
> At the moment it is not based on CKAN because it is just a simple
> site, see http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/05/01/publicbodies.org-an-update.html
> for more details. I am thinking that with the amount of data coming in
> we may need to revisit having a db rather than flat file but we want
> to push it as far as we can.
>
>> http://datahub.io/dataset/uk-public-bodies?
>
> Very useful - i had forgotten about that (great data from David
> Pidsley!). We should try and merge this.
>
>> Can people help updating data easily?
>
> Yes, that's the idea though we could make this much better. See this
> open issue: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/8
>
>> Is there any API for data query rather than JSON url and CSV download
>> (I think ckan has)?
>
> At the moment: no. I've made this super simple but we could easily
> pushed the consolidated data into the ckan datastore. I've just opened
> an issue for this: https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/20
>
>> 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.
>
> Very interesting. As you say this is a good match for crowdcrafting.
>
>> 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/.
>
> That is a great idea and in fact I believe Daniel Gonzalez (in cc) is
> working on this (suggest we fork a thread for this).
>
> Rufus