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

Tue Nov 2 17:54:26 UTC 2010

Hi Tim and others,

I am absolutely with you that we should consolidate the spreadsheet to a more machine readable form. Will do in the following days.

Daniel

On 01.11.2010, at 01:33, Tim McNamara wrote:

> 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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