[wdmmg-dev] Open Spending Albania

Fri Jun 10 16:46:41 UTC 2011

Dear Armand,

(Cc'ing WDMMG dev)

Just a quick update on the way things are working at the moment.

1) We are working on changing the loader system so that people can
load data themselves, without needing to go through us to do so. This
is taking a while as the datasets we are working with are all *very*
different and we need to ensure that the system we build is general
enough for everyone's data.

I am going to hand over to the guys from the dev team to provide some
timeline estimates of what things are looking like atm:

@ Martin, Carsten - any updates on the below?

2) In the meanwhile - we can take a look at your data.

Have you uploaded it into CKAN yet? (2011 data would be good if you
are looking at producing an up to date visualisation)

If yes - could you please send me the link to the package in CKAN?
If no - could you please add a new package in CKAN, tag it with
'openspending' and email us and we can take a look from there.

3) The next step will be to write some mapping metadata to map your
document into the OpenSpending system. I will happily guide you
through this and we can get your data ready to trial in the system.

A guide to producing this mapping can be found here:
http://wiki.openspending.org/Data_Loading#Quickstart

Please let me know if I can help with this!

Lucy

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Armand Brahaj <mandi at shqiperia.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Lucy,
> Any progress on Open Spending Albania? We are working on some more data
> that should include 2011. Do you need them as well?
>
> We are also having a small activity to present open data in Albania and we
> would like to present the data visualization for Albania at
> openspending.org. Any chance we can see some data from Albania there before
> the end of next week? Any thing we can do to speed things up?
>
> Thank you
> Armand
>
> On Mon, 23 May 2011 19:23:41 +0100, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>> Hi Armand,
>>
>> Thank you - we are working on some documentation for OpenSpending as
>> we speak. When we have done it, would you be happy to test out how
>> good the documentation is with your own data? ))
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Armand Brahaj <mandi at shqiperia.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good Morning everyone,
>>> I have added a CKAN entry in our repository for the Spending Data of
>>> Albania. It can be found at:
>>> http://katalog.opendata.al/package/shpenzimet-shqiperia
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you need changes. I checked the version and some
>>> translations are missing. Will see in the afternoon to translate all
> the
>>> terms.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Armand
>>>
>>> On Sat, 14 May 2011 00:42:06 +0100, Jonathan Gray
>>> <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Brilliant - thanks Armand.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a public URL for the spreadsheet anywhere? If not perhaps you
>>>> could work with Lucy to upload it somewhere - e.g. in a Google Docs
>>>> spreadsheet - and then register it in CKAN?
>>>>
>>>> Lucy: could you take care of this as a first step? Then ping
>>> wdmmg-discuss
>>>> list?
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Armand Brahaj <mandi at shqiperia.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hello Jonathan,
>>>>> Please go ahead and use it.
>>>>> I think I had a chance to meet Friedrich in the Transparency Camp
> some
>>>>> days ago
>>>>>
>>>>> _____________________________ Lajmerim i shkurter nga qelizori
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> hat geschrieben:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks very much for getting in touch Armand!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm cc'ing Friedrich, Lucy and Rufus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>All: see attached.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Armand: would you like this data to be loaded into Open Spending?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>All the best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jonathan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Armand Brahaj <mandi at shqiperia.com>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hallo Jonathan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have a version of the Open Spending in Albania in 2009 and 2010.
>>>>>>> Can you
>>>>>>> please check the attachment and provide feedbacks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>> Armand
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>>>   Subject: Re: Version tjeter  Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 13:18:27 -0700
>>>>>>> (PDT)  From:
>>>>>>> blerta zilja <blerta.zilja at yahoo.com>  To: Armand Brahaj <
>>>>>>> mandi at shqiperia.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Jonathan Gray
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Community Coordinator
>>>>>>The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>>>http://blog.okfn.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://twitter.com/jwyg
>>>>>>http://identi.ca/jwyg
>>>>>
>>>
>

-- 
Lucy Chambers
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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