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

Thu Dec 8 18:20:06 UTC 2011

Hi Lucy that will be fine! angelica

El 07/12/2011, a las 15:30, "Lucy Chambers" <lucy.chambers at okfn.org<mailto:lucy.chambers at okfn.org>> escribió:

Hi Angelica,

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

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Enviado el: Domingo, 04 de Diciembre de 2011 16:13
Para: Peralta Ramos Momi (Gerente de Desarrollo Multimedia)
CC: <mailto:openspending at lists.okfn.org> openspending at lists.okfn.org<mailto: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) <<mailto:APERALTA at lanacion.com.ar>APERALTA at lanacion.com.ar<mailto: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/> 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>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/>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/> http://datacatalogs.org/.

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

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

Regards,

Rufus
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