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EU CA data exported into Open Contracting Data Standard
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No record packages? #7

Open birdsarah opened 10 years ago

birdsarah commented 10 years ago

Please forgive me if I've missed this, but I think there are only releases in this data, you also need record packages which group together releases that are part of the same open contracting process.

Thanks again for your hard work on this - its exciting to see it come to fruition.

ionutdobre commented 10 years ago

We have only releases because for the moment we only published a particular stage in the contracting process - award notices. Please tell me if our approach is correct.

birdsarah commented 10 years ago

Hi. Records are always required. Please see: http://ocds.open-contracting.org/standard/r/0__3__3/#record-data

And please do give us any and all feedback about the documentation. I'm sure things are not clear enough so all feedback is gratefully received. We'll be doing a push on re-organizing it in October.

Your data brings up a really interesting point though. @practicalparticipation may have some useful thoughts too.

As an example, your item with ocid 49628-2007. Most of the items have an award date of 2006-11-09, but a handful have an award date of 2007-02-28.

What you currently have is 150 one release, with all the awards in it. This would yield a record with the same ocid and only one item in its releases array.

But you can also imagine two releases with the same ocid. One for the 189 with the release date in Nov 2006, and another release with the same ocid, that comes out with the release information for the other 7 in Februrary 2007. The record would now have two items in its releases array, reflecting that two releases contain information about this open contracting process.

The releases are timely snapshots of information, the records represent a full data picture.

Hope this makes sense.

practicalparticipation commented 10 years ago

I'm not sure I full understand the issues here: perhaps we should flag this for a conversation as we are working on documentation. In case you've not seen it, these notes on using some of the scripts @birdsarah has built for generating records from releases might be useful: http://standard.open-contracting.org/field-notes-transforming-canadian-procurement-data-to-ocds-format/

birdsarah commented 10 years ago

I'm pretty sure I've highlighted in the relevant standard issue a link back to what i was thinking of.