[Open-data-census] Dilemmas in running a City Census

[Christian Villum]

Thanks for flagging these issues, Silviu. Regarding your first question I
would also be really curious to hear what other Local Census communities
have been doing if/when facing such situations?

As for the number of cities, it's my impression that most other Local
Census admins (correct me if I'm wrong) have started out small and tried to
find local contributors and reviewers in each city when adding it. Once the
Census is started it will inspire more people to get involved to start
working on new cities - and then it grows from there. Of course it's the
old hen and the egg situation, so maybe you would want to consider getting
started with a handful of cities with the core team you have now - to kick
things off - and then using that handful as example when reaching out to
people in other cities to grow the contributor community.
I'm sure there are many other ways to go about it and will leave it to
other folks here on the list to chip in as well :)

-Christian


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Silviu Vert <silviu.vert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are preparing to launch the City Open Data Census in Romania and we are
> struggling with some dilemmas around setting up the census. Maybe some of
> you that already experienced these issues can express a perspective on the
> following:
>
> 1) What do you do if some local datasets are to be found at the central
> level? For example, in Romania, the local election results are processed
> all together and exposed by a central institution, the Permanent Electoral
> Authority. Do you just put the same exact evaluation for each city in your
> list, pointing out to the central dataset? Can this be considered relevant
> for the evaluation and comparison between cities?
>
> 2) What is your experience with the number of cities when starting the
> census? Do you prefer to put just a few cities at the beginning, for
> simplification? Do you find it overwhelming to have tens of cities in the
> list from the beginning? What about the number of datasets: does it have
> any influence at the start of the census?
>
> We welcome any input on these questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Silviu
>
> Romania City Census administrator
>
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