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

Tue Oct 28 15:29:06 UTC 2014

Yesterday I submitted a request to be added as a reviewer for PT data, and already made some local notes about some changes to the 2013. Can I just follow the link and start editing? If so, I can most probably have this ready by tomorrow.

On October 28, 2014 1:03:37 PM WET, Mor Rubinstein <morchickit at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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>>

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