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

Wed Oct 30 07:57:47 UTC 2013

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 :-)

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.

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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