[wdmmg-dev] Update

Tue Jun 7 14:04:48 UTC 2011

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 5 June 2011 23:21, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A quick update on where Jose and I got to on Friday with the Mexican data:
>>
>> 1) CKAN storage was down on Friday, so we temporarily used Jose's
>> dropbox to upload the updated CSV. (Availability of CKAN storage needs
>> documenting)
>
> Great. See http://ckan.net/storage/upload/

This is now done here:
http://wiki.openspending.org/Data_Loading#Create_CKAN_Package

- Would be grateful if someone could review.

>> 2) Jose did a great job on producing the GDocs Metadata file. There
>> are a couple of things I wanted to clarify here - he was worried about
>> some of the translations for the description field into English. Can
>> these be for the time being in Spanish (as that is presumably more
>> desirable for his target audience) and then we can work on the
>> translation later?
>
> Nothing needs to be in english here. It can all be in Spanish -- only
> restriction is that OpenSpending field names must be *ascii* (so no
> accents etc)

Good news))

>> 3) The CSV was not accepted initially as the coding was not UTF-8
>> compliant. Jose has changed this for the time being to ASCII encoding
>> to get round the problem but we should document some guidlines on how
>> to ensure your document is correctly encoded.
>
> Good point. Let's document this (the validator should also pick this up ...)

Again, have tried to do this here:

http://wiki.openspending.org/Data_Loading#Creating_the_Mapping_Metadata_File

>> 4) The Mexican Mapping Metadata has been accepted by the system but
>> the screen does not direct to the next page - showing the data in our
>> system. Could we resolve this and then discuss what the next steps
>> should be?
>
> @carsten: could you run a trial run from command line and see what happens?

@carsten, can you give us a shout when you have some results?

Lucy

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