Open Data Census/Bulgaria

= Adding / Editing Material =

Use resources to add links to actual data files (including PDFs if they contain the data). Don't use them just to link to web pages about the data -- put those in the notes.

Conventions

 * Titles start with Bulgarian ... e.g. Bulgarian Parliament Information
 * Prefix package 'names' (slugs) with bg- so e.g. bg-parliament
 * Tag with country.bg and country.bulgaria

= Data Mapping =

Gov data mapping

 * Legislation
 * Finances
 * Civic info
 * Transport
 * Geodata
 * News / Gazettes

Government structure in Bulgaria


 * Central Gov - executive and parliament and courts
 * Regions (28)
 * Municipalities (cities are sometimes municipalities by themselves)
 * Districts (possibly)
 * (mayors in smallest villages)

Legal status for gov material (e.g. legilslation) -- ЗАПСП http://lex.bg/bg/laws/ldoc/2133094401 Член 4, точка 4 Не са обект на авторско право


 * Не са обект на авторското право:

1. нормативни и индивидуални актове на държавни органи за управление, ... 4. новини, факти, сведения и данни.

Question: how far does this extend to all documents.

The Law
CKAN datasets:


 * http://ckan.net/package/open-data-of-the-bulgarian-parliament

The law:
 * In state gazette which is mostly online (html and pdf)? http://dv.parliament.bg
 * last issue on the front page
 * Download link but note javascript! http://dv.parliament.bg/DVWeb/index.faces#
 * Old issues (note no change in link - js strikes again!): http://dv.parliament.bg/DVWeb/index.faces
 * Oldest gazette is 2004
 * Before that => public library
 * private db: http://lex.bg/

Public procurement
4th tab link on: http://dv.parliament.bg/ (no direct link because no urls!)

Parliamentary
CKAN datasets:


 * http://ckan.net/package/bg-parliament
 * http://ckan.net/package/open-data-of-the-bulgarian-parliament

Info:


 * http://www.parliament.bg/
 * Members: http://www.parliament.bg/bg/MP
 * Original data for MP's: http://parliament.bg/export.php/bg/xml/MP/1, 2 .. etc
 * Extracted data: http://ckan.net/package/open-data-of-the-bulgarian-parliament
 * Draft legislation: http://www.parliament.bg/bg/bills
 * No voting info in committees or plenary

Committee debates: http://www.parliament.bg/bg/parliamentarycommittees/members/226/steno


 * Example: http://www.parliament.bg/bg/parliamentarycommittees/members/226/steno/ID/1509
 * Unstructured HTML

Plenary sessions debates: http://www.parliament.bg/bg/plenaryst

Legal decisions

 * Constitutional court: http://www.constcourt.bg/Pages/eFolders/Default.aspx
 * Supreme administrative court decisions: http://www.sac.government.bg/WEBDIS.nsf/vPagesLookup/home~bg

Local stuff
TODO: CKAN it


 * List of all courts: http://www.justice.bg/bg/vlast/1.htm
 * Sofia website: http://sofia.bg/
 * http://www.sofia.bg/en/index_en.asp
 * Planning decisions: not available online it appears
 * Sofia-council-sessions-archive: http://www.request.bg/index.php/lang-bg/sofia-council-sessions-archive
 * The Stakeholder Engagement Plan: http://www.sofia.bg/pictss/ei/SOFIA%20IUTP%20SEP%20-%20Final%20-%202011-04-20%20BG.pdf

Finances
Have CKAN package: http://ckan.net/package/bg-budget


 * State gazette (contains all the Budget Acts): http://dv.parliament.bg
 * Sofia budget http://www.sofia.bg/budget.asp>

Transport
TODO: CKAN it


 * Trains: Publicly owned
 * Timetable and routes: http://bdz.bg/
 * On time statistics: ...
 * Trams in sofia: Publicly owned
 * Bus: part private / part public http://www.sofiatraffic.bg/
 * timetable: http://www.sofiatraffic.bg/bg/transport/schedules/
 * Subway: publicly owned

Civic Info (Health, Education etc)
TODO: CKAN it


 * Health outcomes - e.g. mortality?
 * National statistical institute - http://www.nsi.bg
 * Nurseries: ...
 * Sofia nurseries: http://kg.sofia.bg/
 * Informal: http://www.bg-mamma.com/
 * Schools
 * Exam results per school http://www.matura.bg/html_includes/765/765.pdf
 * List of all schools: http://www.minedu.government.bg/left_menu/registers/ (pdf)
 * Crime data: http://www.nsi.bg/otrasal.php?otr=25&a1=839&a2=883&a3=929

Company Register
TODO: CKAN it

The company register was publicly available until 2011; at some point in 2011 it has been closed and access to it is available for a fee.


 * http://brra.bg/
 * Charge for data ~ €15000 - see http://brra.bg/ContentManagement.ra?contentType=6
 * Can download one record at a time via captcha
 * Not sure of legal status

[ACTION: Peio - get old dump and analysis and add to relevant CKAN dataset]

Geodata and Cadastral

 * Land registry and mapping agency: http://www.cadastre.bg/
 * No data available as far as one can tell!


 * Postcodes: ...

= App and Collaboration Ideas =

See also: http://ideas.okfn.org/


 * croudsourcing the collection of all the bulgarian legislative data
 * extract structured info from plenary and committee debates
 * list of municipalities
 * http://wiki.openspending.org/Countries - find volunteers to populate data for the Bulgarian budget
 * on time stats for public transport
 * wifi locations
 * http://vasil.ludost.net/wardriving - two course papers from students in Sofia University, wardriving in a the Student city district.
 * 'Tell me about my area' -- On my phone (on facebook even!)