[open-government] [euopendata] Launch of Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context!

Fri Feb 4 13:09:28 UTC 2011

Jonathan,

Folks from the Standford Visualization Group might be able to help creating
something OSS on top of Protovis (which is distributed under a BSD license).

http://vis.stanford.edu/
http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

- Sylvain
http://www.defuze.org
http://twitter.com/lawouach

2011/2/4 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>

> Yes though built in a very short time frame (2 weeks) all the code
> will be GPL, and we are going to be looking into creating more tools
> like this that can be repurposed for different datasets. Of course,
> the dream is to make open source (data visualisation) toolkits that
> can be used in lots of different countries very easily. If you're
> interested in the code for this one pop us a line on energy at okfn.org.
> Info will be added to the site as soon as our team has caught up with
> some sleep. ;-)
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Armand Brahaj <mandi at shqiperia.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would ask about the tool :) (It looks great)
> > By any chance it can re-used by others for similar data sets?
> >
> > Rgds
> > Armand
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:02:32 +0100, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Yes all details of data used are on 'about' page, linked to from front
> >> page. All Eurostat data is effectively open as in opendefintion.org -
> >> it can be freely reused as long as the source is acknowledged.
> >>
> >> Any help in passing this on to press, or other people who might be
> >> interested would be very much appreciated! ;-)
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Jonathan
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 02/04/2011 12:20 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> >>>
> >>> FYI the European energy data web app we have been working on for the
> >>> last couple of weeks is now live! :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/02/04/europes-energy-a-new-mini-app-to-put-the-european-energy-targets-into-context/
> >>> http://energy.publicdata.eu/
> >>>
> >>> Launched to correspond with a big European Council meeting on energy,
> >>> taking place in Brussels right now [1].
> >>>
> >>> All the best,
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>>
> >
> http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/ec/119073.pdf
> >>>
> >>> Hi Jonathan,
> >>>
> >>> That's a very nice visualisation tool, congratulations :)
> >>> Is the data generated for these representations also available
> > somewhere
> >>> as
> >>> open data?
> >>>
> >>> Christophe
> >>>
> >>> PS: there seems to be a French translation missing for the title
> >>> "fr::renewable-share-electricity-title"
> >>>
> >
>
>
>
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