[OpenSpending-discuss] Help in building criteria for evaluating open DATA sites

[Rufus Pollock]

On 4 December 2011 10:01, Peralta Ramos Momi (Gerente de Desarrollo
Multimedia) <APERALTA at lanacion.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi Open Spending gurus! (cross posting from my Nicar list) : we´re this weekend in the "Developing Latin America" hackathon ( http://desarrollandoamerica.org/  #dal ) , from 6 countries in Latin America.( I´m in Argentina).

Cool! I know people participating in Uruguay and Chile in this hackathon!

> In our project we´re evaluating sites of "Official Bulletins" in the national and state level (and leaving bases for county level) and building a semaphore map to evaluate the state of accesibility in those sites. In this bulletins, every direct ontract from public spending or public services are published every day .

Great. This is something that also happens in other countries. We're
really interested in the idea of integrating this sort of information
(such as contracts) with OpenSpending (for example linking contracts
to the associated money spent).

Also related, and possibly interesting is idea of an Open Data Census
which we've been thinking about:

<http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Data_Census>

> We want to base our DATA rating system in parameters as: freshness, format (jpg - yes we found some!, pdf, text), accessibility, search box, advances search, etc

It sounds like using <http://thedatahub.org/> would make sense. A
bunch of the fields are already there and you can add arbitrary
additional fields. Alternatively, and a classic simple solution would
be an etherpad or a spreadsheet.

> Do you have ideas or links for building criteria for evaluating open data / open Goverment sites?

For data catalogs you could use http://datacatalogs.org/.

> Here´s a couple of this bulletin site´s deep links:
>
> Cordoba
> http://www.boletinoficialcba.gov.ar/
> Buenos Aires
> http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/leg_tecnica/?menu_id=675
> Trelew
> http://www.trelew.gov.ar/boletin.php

Registering these as datasets on <http://thedatahub.org/> would make a
lot of sense.

Regards,

Rufus