[open-government] collaborative tracking of OGD issues (was: no subject)

Thu Sep 9 10:59:43 UTC 2010

Hi Rufus,

On Sep 8, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> On 16 August 2010 15:16, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Am 16.08.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Jonathan Gray:
>> 
>>> Excellent suggestion Brian (all: see below for context)!
>>> 
>>> At the moment we track competitions and catalogues, but would also be
>>> great to have a more general open data 'initiatives' list, including
>>> info on whether central, regional local, etc.
>>> 
>>> Daniel: might you be interested in starting this off on the basis of
>>> the material we've already collected?
>> 
>> This would definitely make sense and I am happy to work on this. I am not too happy with the solution of maintaining these lists as google spread sheets as they tend to get a bit messi once they get polluted with data.
> 
> Just to throw out a left-field idea: you could 'abuse' a ckan instance
> to do this. Just record the intitiatives as special 'packages'.

Great Idea - let's use ckan 
> 
>>> Ultimately would be good to publish all this on opengovernmentdata.org
>>> in some nice, open, easy-to-reuse form.
>> 
>> Agree - so we are looking for a nice "display" solution and a easy to edit and open "edit" solution
> 
> CKAN would solve the edit stuff - it would easy to write a custom form.

I will talk to Friedrich for support.

> 
>>> Also would be good to
>>> represent this info on a map! ;-)
>> 
>> This would also definitely be a nice feature. I will dig into this and try to come up with an easy to implement solution. Recommendations welcome.
> 
> One could easily write a script to use the CKAN api to extract data
> for display on a map.

That would be great. How to start from here?

Daniel

> 
> Rufus
> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Brian Fitzgerald
>>> <bf.fitzgerald at qut.edu.au> wrote:
>>>> Jonathan
>>>> 
>>>> Is anyone keeping a list of all the initiatives being mention in the Open
>>>> Government list - especially from local government.
>>>> 
>>>> If not we should start
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Professor Brian Fitzgerald
>>>> Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation
>>>> Law Faculty
>>>> Queensland University of Technology
>>>> 
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>>>> http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Fitzgerald,_Brian.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
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