[open-government] Open data competitions - archive + documentation?

[Daniel Dietrich]

Hi

On 22.06.2011, at 00:27, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> I guess I was thinking less about the things that were entered into
> the competition, and more about structured data about the competitions
> themselves. E.g.
> 
>  * competition name
>  * competition URL
>  * region
>  * number of entries
>  * prize
>  * etc.
> 
> As per the existing list on: http://opengovernmentdata.org/competitions
> 
> What do people think? Would this be useful? Any other data we want to collect?

I guess: basic things like start date and end date of the competition.

But also categories of apps, winner apps, etc

For me the most interesting question would still be: how could we make more use of the gathered information? As it is now in the spreadsheed its pretty useless, how would that change by putting the data into CKAn?

Daniel

> 
> J.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> I *really* like this idea. If we were to try and take it forward what
>>> would be the best thing to do? I guess assemble a team who'd be
>>> willing to do the gathering/maintenance bit - and then put together a
>>> rough spec on notebook.okfn.org - and send to CKAN discuss?
>> 
>> I guess starting off by backporting apps to CKAN, putting in some apps
>> and adding package links and then seeing why exactly tags don't work
>> for competition collection would be a useful first step. Whatever you
>> do, a specific use case, a responsible developer and a deadline would
>> work best I guess.
>> 
>> - Friedrich
>> 
>> Bonus points if that developer isn't me ;-)
>> 
> 
> 
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