[OpenSpending] Finding documents

Fri Jul 5 17:28:13 UTC 2013

Big +1 on doing the scraper for CORDIS - I'd be up for contributing :-)

Also added to the data to do list: http://progress.openspending.org/

Rufus

On 2 July 2013 20:46, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>wrote:

> The most comprehensive additional data source is probably CORDIS,
> http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html, which has details on all
> the FP7 grants in the FTS dataset. It'd be cool to get a scraper for this.
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> - Friedrich
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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Ronny Patz <rpatz at transparency.org> wrote:
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>> Johnny,****
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>> For some grants, the responsible Directorate General (DG) publishes
>> additional information on their own websites, i.e. the calls for proposals
>> and the overview of the organisations chosen/rejected. Some calls for
>> proposals may have been published on the official journal of the EU.****
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>> For anything else, you might have to go through FOI requests to the
>> European Commission.****
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>> *From:* openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
>> openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Anders Pedersen
>> *Sent:* 02 July 2013 15:19
>> *To:* OpenSpending Discussion List
>> *Cc:* info at openspending.org; Johnny McDevitt
>> *Subject:* Re: [OpenSpending] Finding documents****
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>> Hi Johnny, ****
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>> I'm looping in our mailing list, as others might be able to chip in with
>> useful information. ****
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>> The source: The Financial Transparency System<http://ec.europa.eu/budget/fts/index_en.htm>from which the data originates is published by the European Union.
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>> As for the original document ID/number this is likely more tricky to
>> locate. I don't know if additional information can be traced at national
>> governments, for instance.
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>> Does anyone else know where to locate additional information about grants
>> in the EU Financial Transaprency System?
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>> Best,
>> Anders****
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>> On 2 July 2013 09:08, Johnny McDevitt <johnnyemcdevitt at gmail.com> wrote:*
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>> Hi there,****
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>> I'm a journalist using your fantastic site. I'm looking at EU grants
>> given to a number of companies but was wondering if there's a way to see
>> the original grant document or official source for the information?****
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>> Best,****
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