[open-government] Fwd: Announcement: Open Data Site in Slovakia

Tue Jul 6 10:02:42 UTC 2010

New open data portal from Slovakia. I wonder whether data is actually
open (as in opendefinition.org)? At the moment the copyright page
looks like a holding page. Would be great if data was
CC0/PDDL/ODbL/ODC-BY... ;-)

J.

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Hello,

After almost a year of design and work, I am glad to announce that
first live instance of Datacamp - data publishing web application went
live:

http://datanest.fair-play.sk/

You can browse datasets gathered by one of the largest NGO in
Slovakia, mostly thanks to the free information act.

Some of the datasets:
* donations from EU
* agricultural donations
* sponsors of political parties
* ... many more

About Datacamp:

Datacamp is a web application for publishing datasets in more human-
understandable form. Some of the features:

* dataset descriptions - human readable field names, field
descriptions, formatting, ...
* localizable dataset descriptions - you can have descriptions in more
languages, for example in countries where more languages are being
used, so all language groups can understand what is in the data
* predicate based searching
* based on refillable datasets (dataset where you append data, instead
of separate small datasets)
* API for data and metadata (data catalogue, dataset and field
descriptions, raw data - whole datasets)

GIT repository: http://github.com/Stiivi/datacamp

This is first step towards open governmental data in Slovakia and this
Datacamp instance is the first and largest open data source in the
country.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, just drop me a
line.

Stefan Urbanek

p.s.: There is more interesting stuff coming very soon: more colorful,
more analytical, more about slicing and dicing... :-)

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