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opendata / Open-Data-Census

A census of U.S. states' open data holdings.
https://census.usopendata.org/
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Should we provide per-state text? #78

Closed waldoj closed 8 years ago

waldoj commented 8 years ago

The system allow for comments on each dataset, but there is no mechanism for providing comments about each state. It would be helpful to be able to say "this state has no repository," or "this state has two repositories" (as a handful do), or "this territory's datasets are all in Spanish," etc.

Doing this would require establishing a new worksheet, with a list of states (I'm hoping that this can be automatically gleaned from the Census Data sheet, using a uniqued list of everything in the State column) and a Comments field for each. That'd be a good place to calculate the grade for each state (instead of doing it in Javascript on the site), as well as to provide a link to the state's repository.

waldoj commented 8 years ago

As I'm surveying Kentucky, I'm leaning pretty strongly towards this. I'd really like to point out that their open data site is really a mid-00s-style transparency site, not an open data site, and that all of their data must be assumed to be copyrighted because every page says © 2015 Commonwealth of Kentucky. All rights reserved. at the bottom, despite that it's not at all clear that they have the power to do that.

waldoj commented 8 years ago

The answer is: yes, yes we should.