All posts in the topic Open data from govt (Short link)
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- There are 5 posts — by 4 authors — in this topic.
- Latest post made by Rob McKinnon at 2009 Jun 19 00:55 NZST
Hi All
I manage the Contact Centre for the MED and am pushing Gov2.0 (better name..?)
including open data. I've joined to keep my ear to the ground and take
feedback/ideas into our world.
Interested in what people are wanting from govt on this and what I should be
pushing. I'm really keen to come up with a paper on this, benefits possible
applications etc which my (soon to be established) CIO will see, like and
initiate...
I've had the discussion with Radio Spectrum Management about their data and
opening it up and its on the workplan for 09/10 if I can keep them engaged.
Looking for ideas - @jeremydickson
Hi Jeremy
Happy to contribute some ideas. Best if we can have phone conversation.
Tomorrow (Fri) morning around 9am is good for me. Call on 04 566 8880.
The post & comments here are relevant: http://research.elabs.govt.nz/new-zealand-government-feed-standard-2009/ - Matthew Matthew Ross State Services Commission 439 6384
2009/6/17 <email obscured>>: > Interested in what people are wanting from govt on this and what I should be pushing. I'm really keen to > come up with a paper on this, benefits possible applications etc which my (soon to be established) CIO > will see, like and initiate... > > Looking for ideas - @jeremydickson Please use unique ids for entities referenced in Govt data. Ideally use persistent URIs for ids. Govt data mentioning company names should include each company's registration number. You could start by updating the Government Electronic Tenders Service. Each post award notification should include the successful supplier's company registration number. I tried to aggregate GETS reported spending by depts and by supplier. The lack of unique ids make this a very time consuming task. Is "Ministry" so hard to spell? http://www.gets.govt.nz/Default.aspx?show=AwardedDetail&AwardedID=1153 My GETS scraper code is here, it normalizes ministry name variations and mispellings, I didn't get around to normalizing company names: http://github.com/robmckinnon/twfynz/raw/ee232956900d61e2439dcef10b50604b278b8600/lib/gets_contract.rb Jeremy, are these suggestions helpful? Rob - @twfynz
2009/6/18 Rob McKinnon <email obscured>>: > > My GETS scraper code is here, it normalizes ministry name variations > and mispellings, I didn't get around to normalizing company names: > http://github.com/robmckinnon/twfynz/raw/ee232956900d61e2439dcef10b50604b278b8600/lib/gets_contract.rb > Someone's submitted a patch already, latest version now: http://github.com/robmckinnon/twfynz/blob/3442f00e185715ab23ad6a12aa8fb98b52c06888/lib/gets_contract.rb