Projects/EU Data Transparency

= EU Data Transparency =

Purpose
To create a registry of major EU public sector datasets.

Details
1. Setting up a simple system for recording where EU relevant data sets are located. This could be data sets that are ready to go, need some processing, scraping, or exist but aren't public and need to be accessed via FOI request. The tool should be easily updatable by non tech savvy people and should be able to spit out an RSS feed to be embedded anywhere else. Jonathan said that this was the method he preferred and OKFN had already built something like this so there's no reinventing the wheel. Eventually we would like to host this on the EU Transparency server but that's not so important right now.

2. Thorough research of EU data sets to populate the database of the system described in 1. I and my colleagues will supply some leads but they will all need to be followed up and the state of the data carefully logged and described. Data should be granular in nature (i.e. not aggregated data sets) and cover but not be limited to: budget data, geographical data (postcodes, placenames etc), environmental data, that kind of thing. The data should be EU wide or relate directly to EU policies and areas of policy competence. Eurostat may be a good source, but there are plenty of others.

Tasks and Roadmap
Questions:


 * 1) Dates: ?? (from Jack)
 * 2) * Answer: event is 5-7th may.
 * 3) * Aim: to have the 8 days done by the start of May
 * 4) What exactly is contribution process from their end: directly into CKAN + email?
 * 5) * CKAN/Wiki + email
 * 6) * ACTION: (JT) draft/send basic 1/2 para blurb about this
 * 7) * ACTION: (JT) setup email address that forward eu-transparency@okfn.org
 * 8) Spit out an RSS feed to be embedded somewhere else. What exactly is wanted here? An rss feed of datasets? A list of the datasets?
 * 9) * Want to be able to embed (updated) list of datasets
 * 10) * Explicit task: to code up a mini-widget to use in sidebars of blogs etc
 * 11) What info do want on each dataset (roughly)? Could they do a crude demo entry here on wiki?
 * 12) * How ready to go is the data?
 * 13) * What is this data?
 * 14) * tagging data by type (e.g. budget, geodata, environment, gov, country-..., format-...,
 * 15) More info about datasets wanted ...
 * 16) * E.g. What is exactly meant by "granular in nature" -- is complete postcode database for a country granular or not?
 * 17) ** E.g. "NHS budget is 65 billion" is too aggregate. More than 50 entries in the spreadsheet.

Happy to play 4+5 by ear but this will require review from their end and feedback.

Roadmap

 * Start 6th April
 * Complete first phase by 1st May
 * Ongoing participation and review (not big band)
 * 5th - 7th May is the summit

Tasks

 * JT: to send MOU
 * JT: draft/send basic 1/2 para blurb about this
 * DONE RP: setup email address that forwards from eutransparency@okfn.org
 * JT: initial leads to follow up
 * JG: using the blurb create a landing page for people on this.
 * JG: start adding material based on leads
 * See http://www.followthemoney.eu/budget-monitoring-and-data-standards/

Project Members

 * Jack Thurston
 * Jonathan Gray
 * Rufus Pollock

Participate

 * TODO