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Re: Data.gov is open source

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It's been awhile since I've read through Drupal projects...but how much of this is usuable, extendable modules and how much of it is "Create a database and run the Drupal init script on it"? https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform

Well https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform/tree/mast... is their custom code that should be portable as should much of the features https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform/tree/mast...

Re: Data.gov is open source

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It should be noted that the software running Data.gov itself has not been made open source. This is a project of the American and Indian governments to produce an open-source version of Data.gov to be shared with other governments. Here's an open-source government data catalog originally made for the City of Philadelphia, built on Django: http://civiccommons.org/apps/open-data-catalog

Yep. They open sourced the equivalent of their marketing site, not an actual data platform. Very disappointing. As another poster mentioned, CKAN is open source, and does include the data hosting platform (based on elasticsearch). Max Ogden has also published two projects that seem relevant: datacouch and (I think) the pdx API for Portland, which are both couchdb based. All three are worth checking out.

Re: Data.gov is open source

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post #5

It should be noted that the software running Data.gov itself has not been made open source. This is a project of the American and Indian governments to produce an open-source version of Data.gov to be shared with other governments. Here's an open-source government data catalog originally made for the City of Philadelphia, built on Django: http://civiccommons.org/apps/open-data-catalog

Forgive me but I don't understand.

If the data is available for download (preferably via ftp) what needs to be "open source"?

Personally I do not care what software they use to run the site so long as the data is available for download in a open format like CSV. Compare this with offering the data in little bits via some silly JSON API or offering it in some format that requires some addtional closed source software to process.

To me, the data is what is important. What software they choose to use is not important, as long as the data is easily accesible (ftp is my preference). What's important is that I can use whatever software I want to process the data.

Re: Data.gov is open source

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I think that having a list of open data country sources could be interesting.

At the moment we have:

- USA

data.gov [linked by ahi]

- City of Philadelphia

http://opendataphilly.org/ [linked by luigi]

- Spain

https://datospublicos.jottit.com/ [spanish link, sources not very parsing friendly]

Which else do you know?

Re: Data.gov is open source

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I think that having a list of open data country sources could be interesting. At the moment we have: - USA data.gov [linked by ahi] - City of Philadelphia http://opendataphilly.org/ [linked by luigi] - Spain https://datospublicos.jottit.com/ [spanish link, sources not very parsing friendly] Which else do you know?

Australia - http://data.gov.au/

New South Wales - http://data.nsw.gov.au/

Re: Data.gov is open source

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I think that having a list of open data country sources could be interesting. At the moment we have: - USA data.gov [linked by ahi] - City of Philadelphia http://opendataphilly.org/ [linked by luigi] - Spain https://datospublicos.jottit.com/ [spanish link, sources not very parsing friendly] Which else do you know?

I found two catalogs with a lot of links

- Wiki of Open Data Day: http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Data

- Comunity section of data.gov: http://www.data.gov/community

Re: Data.gov is open source

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I think that having a list of open data country sources could be interesting. At the moment we have: - USA data.gov [linked by ahi] - City of Philadelphia http://opendataphilly.org/ [linked by luigi] - Spain https://datospublicos.jottit.com/ [spanish link, sources not very parsing friendly] Which else do you know?

DataCatalogs.org, a project from the Open Knowledge Foundation, provides a repository of Open Data catalogues across the world (currently 241):

http://datacatalogs.org/

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