Welcome
This group is working on outlining best practices around OpenData directories (or data catalogs) and how to move forward in building them in Drupal. This group was formed from a BoF at DrupalCon Chicago 2011.
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Drupal Government Days
In April, 2011 the Drupal Government Days in Brussels will be held for the first time.
We want to bring government representatives, Drupal users, developers, evaluators and businesspeople together.
There will be sessions, talks and more at the Drupal Government Days in Brussels.
Some preview on possible topics:
Drupal / Open Source adoption
Case Studies, Projects & Solutions
Open Government initiatives in Europe
Drupal & Open Data
Open Public
Efficiency, Effectiveness and Transparency
eIdentity and eSecurity Integration
Services for Businesses & Services for Citizens
Cataloging the technology platforms behind leading open data sites
Before embarking on an effort to build a great new opendata app/feature/distribution of Drupal, here's a spreadsheet we can use to catalog what technology platforms are used for leading existing open data sites already; please add to it!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArCIrNfY8gf8dHZOR0hKdmFuN1o5dTN...
Read moreProposal & Conversation around "Drupal4Gov Summits"
Hot off the heals of DrupalCon, a number of Drupal'Govies are trying to figure out what's next. With the release of OpenPublic, there is a unique opportunity to tackle some of our more complex issues with an unprecedented way in sharing code, modules, content types and now APPS!!!
FYI, when I'm talking about a "summit," I'm describing a day/s that are mixture between a hackday, unconference, and a "con." Check out this summary < http://groups.drupal.org/node/98784 >.
Read moreDrupalCon 2011 Chicago BoF notes
DrupalCon 2011 Chicago
BOF on Open Data
Who's here?
Kris Olafson, University of Waterloo, helping student developers
Kurt Voelker, CTO of ForumOne, working with NPTech, $1M from Goog
Colan Schwartz (colan), Canadian Gov, buyandsell.gc.ca
Daniel Abadie, in charge of open data init, buenos aires
Bret Husbands, FirmStep, works with 1/3 of UK city govs
Larry Hugg, Sleight of Hand Studios
Anne Keane, NOAA
Alan Palazzolo, Code for America
Barrett Smith, SRA
Proposed "Open Data Warehouse" Features
Last updated by pdowney on Wed, 2011-04-13 14:44
What would make for a terrific open data server, along the lines of data.gov or data.worldbank.org? Something that could help encourage more governments, non-profits, companies, and others to publish more data more usefully?
Feel free to add your comments below each point, and based on those comments, improve each point. Try to avoid adding more points to avoid scope creep.
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Structured way to store and access raw data sets, downloadable in the same form they were uploaded, and queryable by name, time, or text search
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Catalog links to other data hosted elsewhere
Meeting notes and proposed open data specification posted
I've published the meeting notes from the BoF last week, and a separate wiki page for my wish list for a great open data server. Feel free to edit the meeting notes page to add points I didn't document; and to edit the wish list to comment on or improve the list. Moving forward!
Read moreUseful Links
For lack of a de.licio.us or reddit function on d.o, here's a set of useful links related to what we could or should do with open data: Let's sort it by category (in bold).
Making the Business Case
2011-03-12: NYTimes: This Data Isn’t Dull. It Improves Lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13view.html
2011-03-18: FCW: How to move from datasets to data services
http://fcw.com/articles/2011/03/18/comment-brand-niemann-data-services.a...
Tools
2011-02-17: Google Public Data Explorer goes public
Civic Commons resources on data catalog platforms/standards
Hey Folks,
I just wanted to point you all to a few pages on the Civic Commons wiki where some of this information is already being collected:
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Data_Platform (this also includes the spreadsheet that Andrew started)
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Data_Standards#Data_Catalog_Protocols
Best,
Phil
Government of Canada data
I think this is relatively new, Government of Canada data. I was unable to add it to the list, but if it is new would it be appropriate to add to our growing list of data sources?
colan: It's not relatively new; it was announced today! :)
Minister Day Launches Open Data Portal
Could the data toolkit be a starting point?
A note was posted to the Sunlight GoogleGroup list recently pointing to:
http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
A free, self-contained, ready-to-run VM with apps+data for
- geocoding (using geocoder.us. I'm assuming TIGER and OS data)
- geodict "pulls country, city and region names from unstructured English text"
- political boundary lookup (various sources)
- lots of data processing tools, eg pdf ->text
- more
Recent posts
Drupal OpenData Working Group - Italian projects
This discussion is on best practices around Italian Drupal Open Data Projects with expecially focus on Open Government Data.
Read moreDrupal Camp Mexico City 2014 final words
During 23 to April 25, 2014 we had a rewarding experiences when we reached our goal to create a Drupal Camp & Symfony Day in Mexico City at the same technical level of the Camps in USA and Europe. Furthermore it was very diverse since we’ve gathered people from a dozen countries: 35 speakers and 181 attendees. We are very proud to be the first camp to held simultaneously both the Symfony and the Drupal community in one event.
Read moreDrupal University Initiative
Hi guys!!!
I've been cooking an idea about massive Drupal training in Mexico City among engineering and science students. It consist in three phases
1) Crowd-source a role centered Drupal learning curricula from existing sources and the community.
2) Marketing and promote the course + remote tutoring to students.
3) Evaluate graduated students, offer internships and future job opportunnities. Repeat
Hot thread about merits of Drupal in Government over at Knight News Challenge...
Hi folks,
A couple of weeks ago we submitted a proposal to the Knight News Challenge (http://kng.ht/16Fw8w6) for free hosted open data portals for local government based on our DKAN Drupal Distro (http://drupal.org/project/DKAN). The submission made the front page of the contest based on "applause," and got some nice press coverage (http://bit.ly/10Gp7Zj), which has drawn enough interest to ignite a bit of a flame war about the merits, or lack thereof, of Drupal for government. Please do weigh in as you see fit! :)
Best,
Andrew
@ahoppin
http://nuams.com
Knight News Challenge submission for "DKAN" Drupal-based hosted open data platform
Hi folks,
We submitted to the Knight News Challenge today a proposal to deliver a free full open-source hosted data platform for local governments based on DKAN (http://drupal.org/project/dkan):
https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/hosted-ope...
Read moreWhich CMS is more used for software development ?
Something wrong with column for discussions or?
I see 3 columns when I visit the site and the third is for discussions but is very narrow and not easy to read. Is it how it should look or?
Read moreHow much share of drupal is in the software development in the world ?
US government publishes source code data.gov
The US government today announced the release of the source code of data.gov, built with Drupal. Governments worldwide can use this code to create open data portals. The US government and the government of India will develop the code together to build the Indian open data portal.
White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/05/datagov-goes-global
data.gov: http://www.data.gov/opengovplatform
Github: https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform
oData module
Hello everyone,
just let you know that we built an oData module drupal.org/project/odata, for integrating any valid oData services with Views 3.
The module is under development, to become at least an alpha version.
A demo of our current work in progress can be found here.
Feel free to use the issue queue, to discuss/suggest any features you would like to add.
Thank you,
apanag
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