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

Tue May 5 16:19:33 UTC 2015

Dear Stephen,

I am really glad you are looking into different kinds of benchmarking. Tim
Davies and I will present a paper about open data assessment in Ottawa. It
will look at the census alongside other tools and I encourage all of you
who will be in Canada to come and participate in this season during the
open data research symposium.

In addition, we are developing a roadmap to the census, we hope to share it
with you all as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Mor

On 2 May 2015 at 04:41, Stephen Gates <stephen.gates at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mor, on behalf of the Open Knowledge team
>>
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