[OpenSpending] Open Contracting and OKCon

Fri Mar 28 13:34:05 UTC 2014

Hey David, 

great to hear Civio is approaching this! 

On 28 Mar 2014, at 14:18, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friedrich, which two projects are you working on? Are they public, and potentially reusable in other places, or focused in a particular country?

One of them is related to Europe: OpenTED (i.e. a public version of the the EU’s shared procurement system). Basically, I have a set of scripts [1] to extract contract awards from the EC-published XML.

The only way I’m using this right now is to integrate those with regards to EU agencies into OpenInterests.eu (QuienManda for the EU ;). I would like to make the full dataset available, and of course a data standard would enable that extract to be used in shared tools.

More than happy to give you a CSV/SQL/… to play with (or access to the EC’s ftp site). 

We’ll also be running a hack day with the data on May 8, in Brussels: http://www.journalismfund.eu/dhplus/hackaton - Join us!

- Friedrich 

[1] https://github.com/pudo/openinterests.eu/tree/master/sources/ted 

> 
>  regards,
> 
> /david
> 
> David Cabo
> @dcabo
> Director, Fundación Ciudadana Civio
> www.civio.es 
> On Friday 28 March 2014 at 11:52, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:
> 
>> Hi Michael, 
>> 
>> do you think it’s feasible for Open Contracting to have a draft/straw man data standard by OKFestival? I work on two projects related to procurement data, and both would benefit heavily from a data standard. So far I’ve not observed much technical work coming out of Open Contracting - but that may also be a matter of comms? Is there a general timeline?
>> 
>> Cheers, 
>> 
>> - Friedrich 
>> 
>> On 28 Mar 2014, at 01:25, Michael Roberts <michaelr at webfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I believe many of you are aware of the upcoming OKCon in July in Berlin. There has also been lots of discussions and ideas floating around in this hackpad https://hackpad.com/OpenDev-at-OKFest14-SDobXcJkwPC 
>>> in regards to ‘Open Development’ sessions.
>>> 
>>> Some of us working on Open Contracting plan to submit session proposals for the formal event. That said, we are also thinking about a potential side event related to Open Contracting. This could take the form of a sprint or workshop possibly around the open contracting data standard draft for a half day or full day. Apparently there might also be space available through the Wikimedia Foundation. I am curious to hear your thoughts and what the Open Spending community might have already planned during and around the OKCon event, and the potential of collaborating around such a side event.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> Michael Roberts
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