[Open-data-census] Open Data Census and Global Open Data Index technical update

Sat May 2 03:41:12 UTC 2015

Hi Mor, 
thank you for the update. The problem has been quite persistent and a 
little embarrassing when trying to promote the census across Australia. 
I'll stop logging issues on GitHub knowing that the system administrators 
are being notified behind the scenes. I look forward to a sustainable 
solution.

It would being interesting to have a roadmap for the global, regional and 
local open data census platform. I am looking to other open data quality 
initiatives such as Open Data Certificates and the Open Data Monitor. I'd 
be interest to hear your view on how the census is positioned along side 
those complementary / competing tools. Has a roadmap been developed and can 
it be shared?

thanks 

Stephen Gates
Australia's Regional Open Data Census

On Saturday, 2 May 2015 01:15:45 UTC+10, Mor Rubinstein wrote:
>
> Dear Census and Index users and admins,
>
>
> In the last couple of months we have been experiencing some faults with 
> our local open data census instances and the Global open data index and we 
> wanted to give you a bit of background on what causes the problems and the 
> way forward.
>
>  
>
> The errors are due to the fact that The Census codebase is built on top of 
> Google Spreadsheets, which serves as the database for all submissions and 
> places. Google Spreadsheets makes it easy to get the Census up and running, 
> and also provides easy access for content editing. However, over time, and 
> as the census has grown, we have increasingly experienced problems with the 
> way we connect to Google Spreadsheets, leading to errors that require 
> manual intervention. We are dealing with those during European and Indian 
> office hours. 
>
>
> If you do experience a fault on one of the Census instance - please know 
> that we are getting notifications from Google about this as it happens and 
> we are dealing with them asap. There is no need to notify us separately. We 
> thank you for your cooperation and patience so far. 
>
>
> There are various technical solutions to address the connectivity issues, 
> and we are now discussing how and when we will make such changes. Hopefully 
> we can resolve this issue once and for all soon. If you want to help us 
> with the back-end of the census or if you have any more questions, please 
> let us know either on-list or by emailing index at okfn.org <javascript:>.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mor, on behalf of the Open Knowledge team
>
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