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

Fri Oct 25 12:08:54 UTC 2013

Hello,

I forgot to tell you that you should join products at lists.okfn.org if you
want to follow more closely the subject,...

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Philippe

2013/10/24 Philippe Plagnol <philippe.plagnol at gmail.com>

> 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/openproducts or email me directly.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>
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