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

Sat May 9 20:40:22 UTC 2015

Is this the Summit organized by Open North you are attending or something
different?

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, Mor Rubinstein <mor.rubinstein at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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