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

[Lucy Chambers]

Hi Angelica,

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Peralta Ramos Momi (Gerente de Desarrollo
Multimedia) <APERALTA at lanacion.com.ar> wrote:

> Hi Rufus: the hackaton was great!
>
> We managed to work on the National official bulletin dataset as a start in
> PDF and text. Then another groups hacked ir to build a model to extract
> lots of data about entities like persons or companies, as well as contracts.
>
> We built a rating matrix with five principles to evaluate the state of 24
> "State Official Bulletins" in a google spreadsheet, and then we rated them
> and made directory , a semaphore and a Fusion Tables map.
> The criteria were: level of updated content, internal search engine,
> archive, level of accessible format and level of openness and free of
> registration-
>
> Take a look:
>
> http://boletinesar.blogspot.com/
>
> Besides, we would love to help the openspending project but as we have no
> python programmers we never got the visualization of the dataset we sent.
>

Great work, I also saw your post on the NICAR list.

>
> Ricardo Brom is ready to contact again Lucy and we are cleaning and
> normalizing data to obtain the updates of argentine budget data, the 2011
> running budget and as soon as congress approves 2012 budget we´ll get that
> too
> ;)
>

We are currently working on a model editor - to vastly simplify the
process. I'm going to give it a couple of test runs and then we'll be good
to go!

Looking forward to getting this in )

Lucy

>
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: okfn.rufus.pollock at gmail.com [mailto:okfn.rufus.pollock at gmail.com] En
> nombre de Rufus Pollock
> Enviado el: Domingo, 04 de Diciembre de 2011 16:13
> Para: Peralta Ramos Momi (Gerente de Desarrollo Multimedia)
> CC: openspending at lists.okfn.org
> Asunto: Re: [OpenSpending-discuss] Help in building criteria for
> evaluating open DATA sites
>
> 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
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Lucy Chambers
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