[open-government] Call for Collaboration: publicbodies.org

Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Mon Jul 4 14:15:55 UTC 2011


Hooray! Big +1. ;-)

I remember we discussed something a bit like this a while ago as a
possible thing to try to investigate and/or crowdsource for
PublicData.eu (i.e. if public data is data published by a public body,
then we want a list of every public body in Europe).

J.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> having done some work on spending data analysis, I think there is a
> demand not only for a reconciliation service for companies (which the
> excellent OpenCorporates.com provides), but also for public entities
> of all kinds. As an example of the problem, look at
> http://openspending.org/dataset/ukdepartments/dimension/department_family
> (totals are broken atm).
>
> As a big fan of OpenCorporates approach on companies, I'd like to
> propose the creation of a copycat service at publicbodies.org -
> perhaps with less entity metadata but as an endpoint for
> reconciliation of public bodies.
>
> In order to help with this, I'd like to ask everyone's support in a
> brief survey:
>
> * Does such a service already exist?
> * Which countries and admin regions publish (machine-readable) lists
> of public bodies, departments etc.?
> * Which identifier schemes/taxonomies exist for the classification of
> such entities?
> * Any other hints?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> - Friedrich
>
> p.s. As for software implementation, I've started a very basic
> python-based recon server at https://github.com/okfn/helmut to
> familiarize myself with the API. This can be customized for
> publicbodies.org but also used in other places, e.g. for MIME types,
> Taxonomies etc. - wherever we have fuzzy values that need to be
> matched to a set of given URIs.
>
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