[wdmmg-discuss] Italy's regional public accounts

[Lucy Chambers]

Hello Aline,

Great to hear from you, Stefano mentioned that you were meeting up so
it is excellent that you are interested in using the WDMMG
visualisation. I have put my answer to your email inline below.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Pennisi Aline <aline.pennisi at tesoro.it> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Aline Pennisi. I'm an Italian civil servant. With some colleguaes we would like to contirbute to the OpenSpending project and have already identified some interesting data sources.
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> On the 19th of April a conference event where some of you will participate will be held in Rome on "Open data and trasparency" and we are holding a specific panel on Transparency of budget data. The conference is hosted by the Chamber of Deputies, so this is a good opportunity to reach a wide and interesting audience.

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> For this occasion we would like to import on the openspending platform Italy's regional public accounts dataset from 1996 to 2008 (2009 will soon be avialable) and show people at the conference how the WDMMG visualisation can give value added to inform, understand and explore this data.
>
Ok - quite a short time frame but considering that you say you have
formatted your data according to the CSV format - it might just be
possible.

@Friedrich - how quickly could we get this data loaded, provided it is
in the right format (see below)? What is your availability like on
Monday?

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> The Regional Public Accounts (RPA) measure public financial flows at the regional level provinding information on central and local government revenues and expenditures (either on current and capital account) by sector.
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> Data is available since 1996 for General Government or the wider Public Sector and allows for analysis of various sub-aggregates covering different macro-areas and administrative regions, sector classifications, economic categories, definitions of government expenditure and final expenditure recipients.
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> Data is produced by the Department for Development Policies, Ministry of Economic Development, ITALY and will be released in CSV/TXT format soon on the RPA website.
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> The dataset has been prepared following the wiki.openspending requirements and the datapackage loaded on CKAN.
>

Brilliant! Steps 1 and 2 are already down!
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> How can I upload it on the openspeding platform and check whether it is working?
>
I think we should try and coordinate with Friedrich Lindenberg, who is
one of the Developers on this project and see if we can arrange a
Skype call at some point on Monday. If your file is already in the
correct format - then it should be relatively straightforward.

Please let me know when you would be available on Monday 18th and I
will try and coordinate a meeting with Friedrich.

Best wishes,

Lucy



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Lucy Chambers
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
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