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

Tue May 14 12:32:56 UTC 2013

Hi Shen,

This is great. I've booted an issue here:
https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/25

Would it be possible for you to add a header row just in English -- it will
make it much easier for me to take a look and integrate ;-)

Rufus

On 10 May 2013 15:06, SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

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