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A database of public bodies such as government departments, ministries etc.
http://publicbodies.org
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Field for local identifier #65

Open augusto-herrmann opened 9 years ago

augusto-herrmann commented 9 years ago

There should a field in the csv schema to store the local identifier code for a public body, if available. This would make it possible to later create a global identifier (as per #41) and also to keep track of bodies that change names.

augusto-herrmann commented 8 years ago

Including a local identifier used by governments would also make it easier to cross this dataset with other official datasets that make references to them.

mattiasaxell commented 8 years ago

Sounds very wise. There's a column for local identifier ID in the ones I'm uploading for Sweden soon.

rufuspollock commented 8 years ago

@augusto-herrmann +1 - can you do a PR for any changes you want here.

Also @augusto-herrmann would you interested in becoming the "maintainer" for Public Bodies project? http://okfnlabs.org/projects/publicbodies/ - this would mean you could own issues and questions like this and get listed on the website as the official maintainer ;-)

/cc @danfowler

augusto-herrmann commented 8 years ago

Thanks. For the past couple of years, I have been able to give attention to this project only once every few months. If it's ok not having to be more regular, I'd be fine to becoming a "maintainer". In any case it would be good to have more than one maintainer in the project in order to respond to issues and PRs more quickly than I'm able to.

danfowler commented 8 years ago

@augusto-herrmann Excellent, @augusto-herrmann. Whatever time you can spare is much appreciated :).

To make it official, can you add yourself to the okfnlabs site? http://okfnlabs.org/members/signup/

augusto-herrmann commented 8 years ago

Sorry for the delay, but now it's done. Next I'll do a PR of the actual issue being discussed here. @rgrp , you can assign this issue to me as per your suggestion.

augusto-herrmann commented 2 years ago

IMO this field should definitely be included in our review of the table schema for #78

mattiasaxell commented 2 years ago

I agree completely, good!