Dear John, thank you for puting my translation of OKD online. Can I ask that a link to http://gis-lab.info will be added to my name the same way it was added for example to Swedish translation: http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/svenska/
Our community is working to making open data and we'd appreciate some additional visibility. Thanks. Maxim Вы писали 19 февраля 2010 г., 12:48:02: JG> Below is a new project idea from OKF board member Martin Keegan. JG> Project still needs a name. JG> This is exactly the kind of thing it would be great to put in the incubator! JG> Jonathan JG> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- JG> I want to be able to get international comparative data crowdsourced. This JG> would be useful for all sorts of things, but my motivation is helping JG> civil society groups better target their activities. JG> I propose a system which works as follows: a moderator decides he wants a JG> dataset mapping country names to some boolean, such as the answer to the JG> question "Is it possible for an association to get a bank account without JG> incorporating?". He goes to some well-known location, such as JG> http://countrydata.okfn.org/, and creates his one-line questionnaire, and JG> is given a URL of the form JG> http://countrydata.okfn.org/club-bank-accounts, JG> which he then publishes, doubtless on some sod-awful microblogging JG> service. JG> We also make him specify a time period during which the questionnaire is JG> active (and squirrel this away to shove in our metadata package at the JG> end). JG> Visitors to the website can then fill in the questionnaire in relation to JG> their own country. The website requests but do not require identification. JG> The moderator can zap responses he adjudges to be wrong. A quick and dirty JG> chart of countries colourcoded on a world map is provided (either to the JG> moderator or to all visitors - not sure), though this only makes sense JG> where there's a single question in the questionnaire. JG> Once the time is up, the dataset is published on that website and JG> registered in CKAN. JG> Data types which should be permitted in v1 are booleans and floats / ints, JG> though in the latter case the moderator needs to specify acceptable ranges JG> (needed for validity checks and the gradient on the maps). In v2 we permit JG> enumerations (that is, a forced choice between responses specified by the JG> moderator). JG> Mk _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
