[open-government] EU Tender data for download

[Rufus Pollock]

The obvious thing would be to edit the dataset and put a notice and/or
remove the broken data file link and added new file links for e.g. the
scraperwiki file :-)

We also have an automated process using the QA system that detects
broken links (it had flagged this one already!)

Rufus

PS: for further discussion I think we should move off-list (and/or
move to ckan-discuss list) to save on people's inboxes!

On 28 August 2012 18:21, Matej Kurian <kurian at transparency.sk> wrote:
> Thanks Rufus for all the valuable information.
>
> I am currently looking at the dataset in the CKAN. Being new to it, is there
> any way to report that it is broken?
>
> Kind regards,
> Matej
>
>
> On 8/28/2012 1:19 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>
>> There's this dataset on the DataHub:
>>
>> http://datahub.io/dataset/eu-ted
>>
>> Unfortunately it seems the link is now dead. This material was put
>> together by Michael Friis who did a visualization of the data here:
>>
>> http://tedbot.itu.dk/ (link also now dead!)
>>
>> And wrote it up here:
>>
>> <http://friism.com/downloading-the-eu>
>>
>> As an aside, you may find that a better place/list for asking about
>> things like finding this sort of bulk data would be the OKFN labs [1]
>> list at:
>>
>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-labs
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> [1]: http://okfnlabs.org/
>>
>> On 28 August 2012 16:19, Matej Kurian <kurian at transparency.sk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for bulk download for EU TED tender data for non-profit
>>> research purposes. Ideally free.
>>>
>>> As of now, I know that http://showmethetenders.net/wiki/European_Union
>>> are
>>> selling the data. Also, I know that Anders Pedersen of OpenTED is
>>> harvesting
>>> the data. Despite several attempts, I have not received any answers.
>>>
>>> Do you know of any alternative sources?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matej
>>>
>>> Transparency Slovakia runs http://tender.sme.sk/en and informs public
>>> policy
>>> on procurement based on our research. Our finding have been recently
>>> awarded
>>> in the World Bank Innovation Challenge. (http://bit.ly/OwkJbj)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matej Kurian
>>> programovy koordinator
>>> Transparency International Slovensko
>>> kurian at transparency.sk
>>> (+421.2).5341.72.07
>>>
>>> www.transparency.sk
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>



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