[OpenSpending] Removing data sources from the Meta profile

Sun Sep 9 12:52:39 UTC 2012

Hi Friedrich,
Thx for the response.. being able to make data sources hideable will do. We
are using OpenSpending to facilitate discussions both with Government
officials & Media about budget transparency initiatives, so have setup a
demo site using the OpenSpending visualization widgets (See
http://caribbeanopeninstitute.org/gojbudget_Functions). We wanted to also
include the Search option (http://openspending.org/goj-budget-2012/entries)
to enable the viewer to retrieve line item details or download the data if
necessary, so wanted to make sure that the data shown on the Meta screen
was relevant / explainable.

Brings me to a couple other question, are there customization options that
allow you to:
a) customize the columns displayed on the Search screen? (it only displays
Time/Amount by default, would be nice to display other attribute fields
instead of having to click Details)
b) can experimental visualizations be hidden from this view?
c) Can additional tabs be added to the Search | About | Visualisations
screen that contain additional custom visuals/queries?

Rgds,
Mlm

 view that can combine

> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 11:35:24 +0200
> From: Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [OpenSpending] Removing data sources from the Meta
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> Dear Maurice,
>
> great to hear you're using OS! The idea behind these sources is that
> they provide a kind of audit trail of where the loaded data came from,
> so we've decided to make them permanent. There is an outstanding
> ticket to make them at least hideable
> (https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues/413) - so its on
> our todo. Until then, I don't think they do any *major* damage but I
> agree they are a nuisance.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  - Friedrich
>
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Maurice McNaughton
> <mlmcnaughton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In developing a Dataset on the OpenSpending platform, one typically has
> to
> > work through several iterations and versions of the data sources before
> > getting it right. These source data files all remain as listings in the
> meta
> > profile of the dataset. Is there a way to remove those data sources that
> are
> > no longer relevant?
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Mlm
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