[open-government] Help requested - mapping the world's open data catalogues

Wed Oct 12 09:50:06 UTC 2011

Big +1

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2011/10/12 Jose M. Alonso <josema at webfoundation.org>:
> If so, and in the spirit of collaboration and not re-invention, why don't you try to build on the existing one or ask the CTIC guys for an extension or API or the like?
>
> It's easier for me to point people to just one resource, as I'm doing with the faceted one for the visualization and datacatalogs.org for the info.
>
> -- Josema
>
>
> El 12/10/2011, a las 11:42, Tim McNamara escribió:
>
>> I think that's a legitimate concern Jose. I want to be able to provide
>> an idea of spatial coverage by using polygons, rather than points.
>> That's the main differentiator between this and other efforts.
>>
>> 2011/10/12 Jose M. Alonso <josema at webfoundation.org>:
>>> Hi Tim , all,
>>>
>>> It might be me but I cannot understand why you are reinventing the wheel. What is wrong with?
>>> http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
>>>
>>> Besides, AFAIR, CTIC is curating datacatalogs and there were plans to integrate the faceted browser there.
>>>
>>> Josema.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Jose M. Alonso
>>> Program Manager, Open Data
>>> World Wide Web Foundation
>>> email: josema at webfoundation.org
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>>>
>>> El 12/10/2011, a las 08:09, Tomáš Pošepný escribió:
>>>
>>>> Hi Tim,
>>>>
>>>> I would be happy to help, but can't start working on it before 5pm. So if it's not done until then,
>>>> I'll definitely help and do as much as I can.
>>>>
>>>> Have a nice day,
>>>>
>>>> Tomas Posepny
>>>> Computer Science student
>>>> Charles University in Prague
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I've begun a public map for all of the world's public data catalogues:
>>>> http://g.co/maps/23xjw
>>>>
>>>> I have completed page 1/8 from http://datacatalogs.org. I wont have
>>>> enough time to get it all done today. If anyone would like to help,
>>>> that would be fantastic.
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