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Open Data Day International Hackathon

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  • 01-12-2010 4:50pm
    #1
    kevflanagan
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


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    Update from - http://091labs.com/2010/12/international-open-data-day/

    Saturday December 4th is International Open Data Day.

    International Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities
    around the world to write applications using open public data to show
    support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the
    world’s local, regional and national governments.

    Open Data policies can increase government transparency, spur digital
    enterprise and improve civic participation.

    This Saturday NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise and Research Institute
    www.deri.ie will be hosting an Open Data Hackathon at their campus
    located at the IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan from 10am till 5pm
    followed by project presentations and a public discussion on Open Data
    at 091 Labs at the Fairgreen near the Radison from 6pm till 7pm.

    For updates, who’s coming and direction see
    http://bit.ly/OpenDaWest
    For further information see
    http://www.opendataday.org
    or email opendatagalway at gmail.com
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    kevflanagan
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭kevflanagan


    Hey Folks just a few links people might be interested in.
    One of the things we would like for Saturday is to get people familiar with the kinds of public data that are available and to get thinking hats on to develop applications for that data.

    We would like the event to have an Irish Data Focus so here are a few links to get you started.

    First off Fingal County Council are as far as I know the first to develop an Open Data portal. This is a useful example to point councillors in other counties too and it also gives us some idea of the different types of data councils in other counties might be able to make available.
    So it would be great to get some ideas going on how we might use it. http://data.fingal.ie/

    There is also an interesting thread discussing these datasets on the
    Open Data Ireland mailing list
    https://groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland/browse_thread/thread/12d67fcd49205580

    Those with an interest in politics might be interested in some of the datasets retrieved though FOI requests made by http://thestory.ie/

    If you are interested in tools for scraping data take a look at http://scraperwiki.com/


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    kevflanagan
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭kevflanagan


    Also visualization is really important. So please bring some designers along too.

    K


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