[OpenSpending] USA Spending (or a slice) into OpenSpending

Sat Sep 15 12:02:09 UTC 2012

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for your email. It would be great to look at the
bankruptcy data in more detail. Kaitlin Lee, from the Sunlight
Foundation, is part of this list and the Working Group on Open
Spending Data. We were chatting just last week that she is working on
gathering spending data from across the US:
http://thedatahub.org/en/group/us-state-spending-and-revenue-data - so
she'd definitely be a good person to get in contact with if you are
interested in the US data.

As regards a US OKFN site, I'm looping in my colleague, Kat, who looks
after the local chapters. She's going to be frightfully busy this week
as she's running OKFestival, but perhaps, when the steam has died down
from that, we could set up a call to talk this through further?

If you're looking for more info on how these groups are started and
set up. Kat's put up a page here: http://okfn.org/chapters/ - they are
springing up all over the place (see:
http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/ - where it does appear
that some open data meetups are being held in the US), perhaps we
could connect the dots.

Do let us know if you'd like to talk more,

Lucy

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:45 PM, George Adcock <gsaintheusa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rufus, I've always been interested in the US side of the OKFN equation.
> We went over this back in 2008 when I first signed up with the OKFN and
> wanted to push a more comprehensive KM plan, but things change.
> How are SIGs (Special Interest Group) organized. I can't search them or set
> them on the OKFN site. I will be happy to work with, or create and maintain,
> a US OKFN sig. I'd also be happy to help you with the bankruptcy data if
> you'd like, but I never got a response when I asked what you hoped to
> accomplish.
> Regards, Steve Adcock
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Kaitlin,
>>
>> To follow our chat today in person :-)
>>
>> It would be great to get some portion of USA spending data into
>> OpenSpending. Starting point would be USASpending.gov data, see:
>>
>> http://usaspending.gov/data
>> http://datahub.io/dataset/usa-spending
>>
>> You guys at Sunlight already extract the data as part of the
>> InfluenceExplorer. Your suggestion was first to have a dig in the Data
>> Dictionary:
>>
>>
>> <http://usaspending.gov/sites/all/themes/usaspendingv2/Archives_Data_Feeds_Data_Dictionary.pdf>
>>
>> And then decide what are the key fields. We can then get a dump,
>> extract a sample and try loading it.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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