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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Display dataset results as nodes
Is it possible to pull in a dataset such as "http://beta.kasabi.com/dataset/foodista/" and display them as nodes?
So far I have pull in a list of recipes with the sparql_views and views module. I would like to be able to full there full content on a node page. Is this even possible ? I have seen no examples of this being done.
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National governments
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CityGroups Weekend for Bay Area Urban Agriculture
October 8, 2011
Code Sprint & Public Design Workshop at Code for America Offices
85 2nd Street (at Mission), San Francisco
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
October 9, 2011
Community Graphics Installations at and around Hayes Valley Farm
450 Laguna (at Fell), San Francisco
12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
We would like to invite you to a unique little software & design event in which we launch a public directory of urban agriculture community groups for the Bay Area.
Free.
Sign up on this event page and/or register on Eventbrite.
http://citygroupsbayarea.eventbrite.com
CityGroups
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Nonprofit, Government & Education track at DrupalCon Denver
Session submissions are open for DrupalCon Denver and we’re excited to have an entire track devoted to the Nonprofit, Government & Education sectors. We have some great featured speakers confirmed. We’re also seeing a growing number of sessions being proposed -- but we need a lot more!
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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
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
How much share of drupal is in the software development in the world ?
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?
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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...
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Want to win $35K for building a cool flu app?
Do you like building apps, or know someone who does?
I wanted to let you know about the CDC Flu App Challenge http://fluapp.challenge.gov/. CDC is offering $35,000 in prizes for the most innovative apps that use CDC flu data to create a technical solution that promotes healthy behavior for flu prevention.
The contest challenges the public to create new ways to use technology, be it for:
• the web
• a personal computer
• a mobile handheld device
• any platform broadly accessible to the open Internet
CDC Flu App Challenge - 35K in Prizes
Hello Open Data Group -
I wanted to let you know about the CDC Flu App Challenge, http://fluapp.challenge.gov. CDC is offering $35,000 in prizes for the most innovative apps that use CDC flu data to create a technical solution that promotes healthy behavior for flu prevention.
The contest challenges the public to create new ways to use technology, be it for:
• the web
• a personal computer
• a mobile handheld device
• any platform broadly accessible to the open Internet
Budget problems may shutdown key open gov sites in the US
Bitter irony that so soon after the announcement that the source code of IT Dashboard is being made available, news is reporting (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798) the imminent shutdown of that site and other "open gov" sites as a result of the budget debacle.
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The CKAN (http://ckan.net/about) module was published by the UK government. This module allows content to be synched from CKAN into Drupal. See open data sets from different governments: http://ckan.net/tag/government
CKAN is the system UK use as their “back end” to store information about all the data government has released. Drupal is used as a system to publish web content, and serves as their “front end” through which people can use to find our datasets and comment on them.
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
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
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
Useful 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
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!
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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
