[Open-data-census] Customized Questions and Scores

Sat Feb 7 09:31:38 UTC 2015

Hi Waldo,

The index has a number of problems, for different jurisdictions and i think
a deep conversation about it is important.

cheers
Tracey

On Friday, February 6, 2015, Waldo Jaquith <waldo at usopendata.org> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I’m working with Emily Shaw, at the Sunlight Foundation, to put together a
> census of U.S. states’ open data efforts. We’re going to change the
> evaluation criteria a bit, to work better for U.S. states, notably by
> increasing scores for datasets that are served over SSL (or are otherwise
> automatically verifiable). Changing the questions and their scores isn’t
> something that’s supported by Open Data Census, because OKF wants to be
> able to provide global comparisons, which requires constant metrics. We’re
> going to fork the project to make the necessary changes, though, so that's
> an easy problem to solve, although it’s a shame to work somewhat outside of
> OKF’s ecosystem.
>
> I’m curious, though—does anybody else find that they want/need to change
> questions or scores? Or is it just us? :)
>
> Best,
> Waldo
>
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