[open-government] Know of any data publishing made easy tools for government?

Wed Sep 22 07:27:35 UTC 2010

Hi James,

Something that may come close enough in IMHO is gridworks (now 
google-refine).

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/?redir=1

Monika

On 22/09/10 08:23, james burke wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> While there is a lot of discussion around software like CKAN which is 
> described as a data catalog,
> whose function is to point to data sets and add meta data and other 
> features that enrich findability
> and comprehension, i am wandering if there */are examples of data 
> publishing solutions, /*
> */that make it easy for government workers to easily input and then 
> publish data/*
> so that it can reach a variety of users in open data standard formats 
> like xml, csv, etc
>
> Examples:
>
> - A civil servant uploads an excel sheet which is then converted  to 
> xml, csv or other open data standard
> - A government worker, selects part of a database which they then want 
> to make available in an easy to reuse format over the web to either 
> everyone, or a select group of users.
>
> If examples exist, curious to see if anything is open-source?
>
> Regards
>
> James
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