[openbiblio-dev] Datasets spreadsheet

[Tom Morris]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Naomi Lillie <naomi.lillie at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Ross,
>
> I've been trawling OpenBiblioDev archives for helpful info, and came across
> this
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtbO6mZEvieCdDFzdkVNQld6Mnc5NEpGWVlRUVhvM3c#gid=0
> - would it be ok with you if we link to this from the openbiblio.net blog?
> One of my actions was to create and maintain a database of available
> datasets and open-friendly organisations, and promote this on the site...
> You have saved me a lot of work with the former so it'd be great if we could
> show that off! Do let me know.

If you're going to reuse this work (or do something similar), I'd
suggest explicitly storing the categories in a column rather than
making this information only available via color coding.  It's
impossible to filter, sort, search, facet, etc on a color.

Tom