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

Tue Oct 28 13:29:09 UTC 2014

I'll try as well but life I'm struggling to keep my head above water at the
moment.

Adi

On 28 October 2014 15:20, Mor Rubinstein <morchickit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ana,
>
> Deadline is in two days, October 30th.
>
> Hope you can make it.
>
> Mor
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Ana Alice Baptista <analice at dsi.uminho.pt
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>>
>> I would love to help, but we will only start this work in one or two
>> weeks, I'm sorry. I didn't even know there was a deadline. What is the
>> deadline for?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ana
>> ________
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 2014/10/28, às 13:03, Mor Rubinstein escreveu:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> ________
>>>
>>> <image001.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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