[open-government] Lists of OGD competitions and catalogues...

Mon Nov 1 00:33:27 UTC 2010

On 1 November 2010 03:44, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just created the following two pages:
>
>  (i) http://opengovernmentdata.org/competitions/
>  (ii) http://opengovernmentdata.org/catalogues/
>
> The competitions page is straightforward. It embeds the spreadsheet
> that Daniel Dietrich and I originally created. Tim McNamara has
> recently been doing a great job at updating it and cleaning it up!
>
>
> https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tez-qFkA7LnCBGdFaJwMslw&authkey=CNXQlJgC&hl=en#gid=0
>
> The catalogues page contains the original open government data
> catalogue spreadsheet that Daniel and I created:
>
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=to-gfkPj2nyiSCFN8bPJPuQ&authkey=CLDY7sYM&hl=en#gid=0

Just a word to creators of spreadsheets like this. Please try optimise for
computers, not for humans. For example, it's much better to duplicate a
region in several rows rather than using visual clues to block regions:

For example, this very difficult for machines to process:

Canada
Edmonton http://data.edmonton.ca/
Nanaimo http://www.nanaimo.ca/datafeeds/
Toronto http://www.toronto.ca/open/

An easier way is to duplicate the content that spans several rows:

Canada Edmonton http://data.edmonton.ca/
Canada Nanaimo http://www.nanaimo.ca/datafeeds/
Canada Toronto http://www.toronto.ca/open/

I know that this is ugly, however it makes things *much *easier to parse.

Regards, Tim.
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