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

Mon Nov 4 11:14:58 UTC 2013

Hi all,

for what its worth, I've uploaded a list of all European (+member state)
public bodies that have awarded major public contracts over the last 6
months: http://opendatalabs.org/misc/authorities.csv

This set is going to grow from now on, so it may make sense to consider how
we can use it as a data source for publicbodies.eu in the future. Using
CrowdCrafting to clean it up would be ideal!

What do people think?

- Friedrich

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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>> Please do NOT use proprietary file formats to share files
>> like DOC or XLS, instead use PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV or
>> any other format that does not impose on the user the employment
>> of any specific software to work with the information inside the files.
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>> Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el
>> intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino PDF, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV
>> o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un
>> fabricante concreto para tratar la información contenida en él.
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