[okfn-labs] The future of Nomenklatura

Fri Nov 15 21:11:34 UTC 2013

On 13 November 2013 11:07, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, Rufus - comments inline.
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> At the same time, nomenklatura's notion of datasets prevents the service
>>> from helping users to discover links across datasets - e.g. a list of all
>>> EU lobbyists might overlap with those companies competing for EU tenders.
>>>
>>
>> My sense is that the link problem may be something different (though
>> important) - and being another big chunk might want to be kept separate to
>> start with.
>>
>
> This, to be honest, is the problem I have right now - so I want to solve
> it. I can live happily ever after without having journalists use
> nomenklatura, but if it a) stays a pain to actually clean up the data that
> has been submitted and b) I can't do cross-dataset matches then I'm stuck
> on the TED data and similar places.
>

That's perfect: you're also the "user" and have a use-case right now :-)

> This also makes me wonder: do you have a list of your key user stories -
>> that might help clarify what things going into the minimal viable
>> enhancement and which don't.
>>
>
> Hm, let me have a go. I'm going to assume just one user group, which is
> advanced data users - other groups like journalists seem less interested in
> this problem still, and also its fun to do something for experts once in a
> while :) Doesn't preclude us from unlocking new user groups later...
>

Sounds good and these are excellent. Could we put these in a
pad<http://pad.okfn.org> or
gdoc so they were editable / commentable and we could add values.

> * As a data expert, I want to submit my data to the service, either
> through an API, in bulk (CSV) or, in extreme cases, manually through a UI
> so that I can represent my data.
>
> * As a data expert, I want to submit data through the Refine API, so that
> I have a local UI from which I can upload data as well.
>

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Rufus
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