[open-government] Software for Open Data : Drupal?

[Brian Fitzgerald]

From Mark Perry


Dear Open Govt. Colleagues

For the last couple of years I've been working on seeing how interested the Can Govt. departments are in Open Source solutions, and some of the results you can find in the two papers here: <http://ssrn.com/author=10510> http://ssrn.com/author=10510 "FLOSS as a Public Policy Choice" and "FLOSS for the Canadian Public Sector..." (one is an extended version of the other, I forget which is which). Apart from some individuals, I've had little sucess in convincing the Can Fed. Public Sector to engage in anything along these lines. I hope that others are more effective.

atb

Mark


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On 13/09/2011, at 1:26 AM, "Rufus Pollock" <rufus.pollock at okfn.org<mailto:rufus.pollock at okfn.org>> wrote:

On 12 September 2011 11:38, Neil McEvoy <neil at mcevoy.biz<mailto:neil at mcevoy.biz>> wrote:

Thanks Rufus, this seems to be exactly what's needed.

My goal is to host it locally in Canada, so that it's entirely tailored
for the government's needs here. I presume it's quite straight forward to
install and operate?

Yes, it's straightforward to deploy and is open source (obviously!).
In fact there was a deployment done (with integration with Drupal)
early last year for this site:

<http://www.datadotgc.ca/>

Once installed, is it possible to simply start contacting Government
agencies and offering them a facility to integrate and host their data in
this environment?

Yes.

I presume most of the heavy lifting would be in identifying, extracting
and transforming the data...

Yes, that's the hardest part of it -- particularly because data is
very variable (geodata isn't the same as chemical data, data from
excel files may be handled differently from linked data or ESRI shape
files etc).

Rufus

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