[open-sustainability] Open AMEE data

Mon Nov 26 15:22:29 UTC 2012

James, I would be interested in working with this, unsure of the timeline
as it's pretty hectic. My focus could be on the visualization part and the
creation -> how to get researchers to publish their research openly. I can
talk also with Leo from Sourcemap to see if he is interested in this, I
could probably rebuild the visualization of footprinted around this data as
a fork, as this data is way better. I like the idea of using github,
forking, extending, pushing.
Jorge

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:51 PM, James Smith <james at floppy.org.uk> wrote:

>  Hey guys,
>
> You all know AMEE, the platform for running carbon calculation
> methodologies. It was a great thing, and had a good run, but I suspect that
> it's winding down and the data is not being maintained as much as it
> should. It was never an Open project, and suffered from not getting
> submissions of new data from the outside, but I still think it's a very
> useful resource to have around.
>
> AMEE have now open sourced their datasets at
> https://github.com/AMEE/datasets, and ex-employees have defined a better
> open standard for executable data (https://github.com/spatchcock/calcJSON),
> and a conversion tool to go from one to the other (
> https://github.com/Floppy/connery).
>
> The nice thing is that the calcJSON format means you don't need an API
> platform to use the data, so it makes it possible for a voluntary effort to
> take over the AMEE data and maintain it in an open way just using github,
> and extend it to include other datasets that it never had before.
>
> I'd love to find a way to make this happen, as the resource that's there
> is too good to stay locked up and slowly dying. Anyone interested, and more
> importantly, able to put in any time?
>
> cheers,
> James
>
>
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