[okfn-labs] CrowdCrafting application to get more info on Public Bodies (starting with EU)

Mon Nov 4 09:49:45 UTC 2013

On 30 October 2013 07:57, Daniel Lombraña González <teleyinex at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Rufus,
>
> The application should be easy to build. I've just imported the CSV in the
> Github repository and automatically we have 129 tasks to deliver to our
> users :-)
>

Great - do you have a link to the app?

> The main problem will be how to extract those 2 paragraphs from the web
> pages, and make them consistent when 2 or 3 people enter the same
> information. I've checked two pages (note in some rows you don't have the
> URL) and they do not follow the same structure at all. Thus, the
> instructions should be to find in the web page something like "Who we are",
> "What we do", "About us", etc. Select 1 paragraph, copy it, and paste it.
> The same for the other fields.
>

I don't think we want to try and auto-extract something but leave to users.
Also this is something where I'd set it up so you only need to do each task
once (at least in first instance) so different stuff from different people
is less of an issue.

What I would do would be to link to website with target=_blank (or perhaps
an iframe??) and give some good instructions on what we want e.g. "Please
provide a brief description of this organization in English. The
description should start with a single summary sentence and be
approximately 1-2 paragraphs in length. Copying and pasting directly from
the website is fine".

The one tweak I would make is to not allow them to submit a result if the
description is less than, say, 40 words, or more than, say, 250 words.

Rufus

>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel (and all others interested!),
>>
>> On PublicBodies.org many entries lack good descriptions. I think this
>> would be a great opportunity to use CrowdCrafting.org
>>
>> As a starting point we could focus just on the EU which has a relatively
>> limited number of Bodies (just 129 at the moment):
>>
>> http://publicbodies.org/eu
>>
>> We already have URLs so all we would need is for the app to take that URL
>> and prompt users to enter a short description (1-2 paragraphs) (probably
>> copied from the source website). There's more in this issue here:
>>
>> https://github.com/okfn/publicbodies/issues/35
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>
>
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> like DOC or XLS, instead use PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV or
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