[openspending-dev] OpenSpending Source Archive

Vitor Baptista vitor at vitorbaptista.com
Fri Dec 21 16:42:56 UTC 2012


Although there's not much data, this sounds like a great use for the new
Amazon Glacier (http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/).

2012/12/21 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

> This is brilliant Friedrich.
>
> One thought: what about s3 (or similar) for permanence (as opposed to
> local disk) - this seems like important resources and having them
> preserved would be good.
>
> Also, some ideas (feel free to shoot down!):
>
> * What about one directory per dataset for consistency.
> * What about adding some datapackage.json style metadata in each
> directory (i volunteer to do this)
> * If on s3 we could still have a nice index page with a small
> index.json file and some js (again i volunteer)
>
> Rufus
>
> On 19 December 2012 13:58, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've begun collecting all the source data for OpenSpending (all
> datasets) at
> > http://archive.openspending.org/ to protect us from a situation where we
> > need to reload the database but the original data has become
> inaccessible.
> > It's also a nice set of CSV just to play with.
> >
> > Have fun,
> >
> >  - Friedrich
> >
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