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

Tue Oct 28 16:45:18 UTC 2014

Hi Christian, thanks! Ana Isabel Carvalho and I will be working on this 
and have gone through the details with Mor off-list. We'll report back 
once we're done, hopefully tomorrow still.

On 10/28/2014 04:38 PM, Christian Villum wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> That's great - and yes, you simply follow the link and start 
> contributing (submitting). This is open for everyone to do. But maybe 
> you would also be interested in reviewing? This would be great.
> Ideally submitting and reviewing should to be done by different people 
> (for accuracy and accountability), but in some cases groups work 
> together to do both. I can set either one of you up as the reviewer 
> and that person will then be able to push the updated submissions 
> online as new official entries. Let us know what you prefer!
>
> -Christian
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Ricardo Lafuente 
> <r at manufacturaindependente.org <mailto:r at manufacturaindependente.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>             <http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/%7Eanalice>
>             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
>>             <mailto: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
>>                 <http://transparenciahackday.org/>), Lisbon
>>                 (http://flipside.org/notes/open-data-maker-night-iv/)
>>                 and Coimbra (http://improvecoimbra.org
>>                 <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 Baptista
>>>                 http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/~analice  <http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/%7Eanalice>
>>>                 ALGORITMI Research Centre / Information Systems Department
>>>                 School of Engineering, University of Minho
>>>                 P-4800-058-Guimarães
>>>
>>>
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