[okfn-labs] Product Open Data(base) (POD) - Introduction and Request for Collaborators

Thu Oct 24 08:29:23 UTC 2013

Hello everybody !

Open Product Data will be a big DataWareHouse full of Master data, just
imagine all the possibilities !

- see this list of smartphone apps : they use private database :
http://product.okfn.org/smartphone-apps/
- see the use of barcode as a communication channel :
http://www.pod.lsa-conso.fr/

We are building a worldwide brand repository, a worldwide products
repository to give new tools to consumers !
The potential field of innovation is enormous,...

Please Sign up here to participate :)  http://pad.okfn.org/p/openproducts

Regards,
Philippe

2013/10/22 Philippe Plagnol <philippe.plagnol at gmail.com>

> Dear Open Knowledge Foundation Labs members,
>
> I’m writing to introduce the Product Open Data effort I’ve been working on
> and to ask for help.
>
> Since November 2012, I developed a product database called POD (Product
> Open Data) which you can find online at: http://www.product-open-data.com/
>
> This project is quite ambitious: we aim to create the first open database
> containing all products in the world which have a barcode (called GTIN
> code)! I think this is one of the most interesting open data projects one
> can do - product data is everywhere and having good open product data can
> support a huge amount of innovation from tools to analyse nutrition,
> allergy risks global supply chains as well as allowing us to build app to
> turn your smartphone into a barcode scanner!
>
> I’m pleased to say that the database and website are now coming to live
> here at the Open Knowledge Foundation Labs. So far I did everything by
> myself using php and mysql and I’m not an expert (I taught myself over the
> last year!), so I definitely need help and it may be the case that we need
> to do some reworking of what is there ;-)
>
> Much of the current code is now on github:
> https://github.com/okfn/products (explorer)
>
> The database and pictures are available for download here:
> http://www.product-open-data.com/download/
>
> So I’m looking for people interested in collaborating to build the best
> open product database in the world :-) The kind of things we would be
> working on are:
>
>
>    -
>
>    Scraping product information
>    -
>
>    Cleaning up and normalizing data
>    -
>
>    Improving and updating the frontend
>    -
>
>    User interface for visualization and editing of data
>
>
> If you are interested please sign up at http://pad.okfn.org/p/openproductsor email me directly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philippe
>
>
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