[OpenSpending] Open Contracting and OKCon

Fri Mar 28 21:14:21 UTC 2014

The list looks great Michael. Let us know if you need any help from us!

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Michael Roberts <michaelr at webfoundation.org
> wrote:

> Hi Julia,
>
> This is useful indeed. There is some overlap with the countries we have
> prioritized.
> We are using the following tool here
> http://open-contracting.github.io/2014/03/04/opendatacomparisonbeta.html to
> capture metadata around the datasets.
>
> The priority countries we currently are looking at include:
> Canada, Uruguay, Korea, Philippines, Moldova, Mexico, NYC Checkbook, UK
> Contracts Finder (regular + planning), Costa Rica, Colombia (just
> document links), Peru, Georgia, Chile, Brazil, EU, UN Office of Projects
> Services
> The list is based in part on data availability, contact points, current
> OCP missions, as well ensuring sample datasets cover the various phases of
> the procurement process and different types of publishers.
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>  Michael Roberts
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>
>
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Julia Keserű <jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com>
> wrote:
>
> Michael, what are the countries that you have identified so far? Sunlight
> did a little bit of `research` last summer around how countries disclose
> their procurement data, might be useful for your work:
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/03/so-how-do-other-countries-perform-when-it-comes-to-procurement-transparency/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:51 AM, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Friedrich,
>>
>> great to hear Civio is approaching this!
>>
>>  Well, at least we'll try (very hard); so many things to fix around here!
>> :D
>>
>> The only way I'm using this right now is to integrate those with regards
>> to EU agencies into OpenInterests.eu <http://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).
>>
>>  I saw OpenInterests, looks great; and I immediately thought about
>> whether we can link/reuse some of that data from our side, but I haven't
>> had the chance to work on it for the last few months.
>>
>>  What we want to do on our side is very similar to OpenTED, but for a
>> very ugly spanish procurement site. So I don't need your data right now,
>> but I'll definitely get in touch with you (and/or OpenContracting) when we
>> start working on it, try to use the same data formats. In parallel we also
>> need to scrape some ugly company register PDFs, I discussed it briefly with
>> Open Corporates. All this, hopefully, at some point in 2014. ;)
>>
>>  Can't make it to the Brussels hackathon I'm afraid, but we'll be around
>> in OKCon.
>>
>> /david
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