[Open-data-census] Information about forms available?

Tue Oct 28 13:03:37 UTC 2014

Hi guys!

Back to the Index - we got two more days to fill it in!
Can one of you dear open data in Portugal people can help us to fill
Portugal?
http://global.census.okfn.org/place/pt

It shouldn't take more than two hours.

Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Ana Alice Baptista <analice at dsi.uminho.pt>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> Thank you so much for your prompt answers and friendly welcome.
>
> I have been working in the area of Semantic Web/ Linked Open Data (LOD)
> since 2000. Open data for me is more than just openess and has much to do
> with what in some documents here you (this community) call "comparability".
> I guess that by "comparability" you mean "semantic interoperability", but I
> am not sure. Anyway, I have been working in the range of scope of the
> Dublin Core community, in particular with metadata, encoding schemes and
> application profiles [1]. The technologies and languages I deal more with
> are RDF (turtle and RDF/XML), RDFS and SKOS.
>
> The Centre for Computer Graphics (CCG) [2], with which my research group
> works, is willing to map, or at least scan, the open data landscape in some
> portuguese municipalities. I've checked the analysis you've been doing and
> (1) we want to contribute; and (2) we want to add one dimension to our
> analysis - the LOD dimension. Regarding this dimension, I have sketched
> nine parameters, gathered in three groups,  for which I ask your
> feedback/suggestions:
>
> ATRIBUTES / METADATA ELEMENTS / PROPERTIES
> - The names of attributes are clearly defined;
> - The names of attributes are standardized/ used by a wide community of
> practice;
> - The names of attribute are identified by a URL;
>
> SYNTAX ENCODING SCHEMES [3]
> - Units of measure and/or datatypes are clearly defined;
> - Units of measure and/or datatypes are standardized/ used by a wide
> community of practice;
> - Units of measure and/or datatypes are identified by a URL;
>
> VOCABULARY ENCODING SCHEMES [3]
> - Controlled vocabularies / enumerated types are clearly defined;
> - Controlled vocabularies / enumerated types are standardized/ used by a
> wide community of practice;
> - Controlled vocabularies / enumerated types are identified by a URL;
>
>
> I could add some more parameters related to the format in which the data
> is presented (XML? RDF?...) but I think that for now I would be happy
> enough if I found some data for which I could put a "yes" in some of those
> parameters I've just listed.
>
> Does this make any sense to you? Do you want to make any
> suggestion/addition?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ana Alice Baptista
>
>
> [1] - http://dublincore.org/
> [2] - http://www.ccg.pt/en/presentation/
> [3] - http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Glossary/Encoding_Scheme
>
> P.S.  for the portuguese speakers: thanks! I will contact you.
>
> ________
>
>
>
> Ana Alice Baptista
> http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/~analice
> ALGORITMI Research Centre / Information Systems Department
> School of Engineering, University of Minho
> P-4800-058-Guimarães
>
>
>
>
> A 2014/10/15, às 17:31, Mor Rubinstein escreveu:
>
> Hello Ana,
>
> Welcome to the census mailing lists!
>
> First, the archive can be found here:
> https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-data-census/
>
> Second, if you need more information, we added some specific detailed
> information for some of the questions in the tutorial
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1-G7iNHxDkNLC-wXwTRalwCc4PwIbIprGi5kvRCfR_w0/edit#>.
> Feel free to add questions or comment in it.
>
> Lastly, if you want to see our blog post in Portuguese, the guys from OKFN
> Brazil translated it here -
> https://pad.okfn.org/p/%C3%ADndice-dados-global. Other than that, you can
> join Ricardo here. :-)
>
> Good luck and looking forward to see some new submissions from Portugal
> :-)
> Mor
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Ricardo Lafuente <
> r at manufacturaindependente.org> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Ana,
>>
>> There's already a decent community, judging from the relevant PT presence
>> at OKfest with 10+ people :-)
>>
>> While there isn't one unified "open data community", there has been a lot
>> of work done in Porto (http://transparenciahackday.org), Lisbon (
>> http://flipside.org/notes/open-data-maker-night-iv/) and Coimbra (
>> http://improvecoimbra.org). The groups are loosely connected and have
>> been working on open data initiatives for some time.
>>
>> I'm involved in the Transparência Hackday activities, and would recommend
>> a look at our mailing list and forum to get acquainted with what has been
>> done in the last few years.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> :r
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/2014 04:28 PM, Ana Alice Baptista wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> I'm new to this mailing-list and I could not find any archives, so I am sorry if this question has already been answered. As far as I understood from the video at [1] the forms for submitting datasets have enough information about all the questions. What I would like to know, however, is if this detailed information is available in a downloadable document (word, html,...) and, if yes, where I can find it.
>>
>> My second question is related to community building: are there any portuguese or people from portuguese speaking countries around willing to start a portuguese speaking open data community? If yes, could you please email me?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ana Alice Baptista
>>
>> [1] http://global.census.okfn.org/contribute/
>> ________
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ana Alice Baptistahttp://www.dsi.uminho.pt/~analice
>> ALGORITMI Research Centre / Information Systems Department
>> School of Engineering, University of Minho
>> P-4800-058-Guimarães
>>
>>
>>
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