Excellent write up from Julie Starr in Idealog

[Mike Riversdale]

Relive the memories: http://idealog.co.nz/blog/guests/the-data-tell-the-story

[Julian]

What a great writeup.

Here's my rant about the process used in the last session:
http://seradigm.co.nz/2009/08/31/action-over-words-combining-electronic-and-analogue-facilitation.html

And some photos from the day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seradigm/sets/72157622199713554/detail/

Thanks to Mike, Daniel and everyone else for organising such an
excellent
event.

Julian
--
Julian Carver
Seradigm Limited
PO Box 30042
Christchurch
021 684 147
03 982 1105
www.seradigm.co.nz

[Stuart A. Yeates]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Julian<julian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And some photos from the day:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/seradigm/sets/72157622199713554/detail/

My photos are up, but not findable, due to a long-running dispute
between me and flickr over the definition of "commercial"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartyeates

cheers
stuart

[hellonearthisman]

Did you tag the images?

On Sep 1, 11:17 am, "Stuart A. Yeates" <syea...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Stuart A. Yeates]

Clicking on the images reveals they're tagged as "nationallibrary" and
"opengovt"

cheers
stuart

[Laurence Millar]

following up on the wiki, I noticed that there is a question about
getting data on government agencies. A full list is available as a
download from www.psd.govt.nz.

[Stuart A. Yeates]

Careful using that tool. It offers downloads of text including macrons
as CSV. In my experience this will almost always lead to a situation
where those macrons get mangled, because CSV files have no indication
of character set. Ideally this data would be available as XML (which
includes explicit character set information).

cheers
stuart

[concertm]

The CSV file that is produced by the PSD is in UTF-8 and this is
signified in the download header (Content-Type: text/csv;
charset=utf-8)

[This is in line with the new government Web Standards. See 2.1
http://webstandards.govt.nz/technical/ ]

Most standard text tools handle this fine (I've just tested with
Notepad++, Notepad, jEdit). Excel however does not :-), so for Excel
it's best to select the Return Type as Microsoft Excel.

For webservice options (XML/DSML), see http://toolkit.psd.govt.nz/

Cheers
Matthew
--
Matthew Ross
State Services Commission

On Sep 6, 11:05 am, "Stuart A. Yeates" <syea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Laurence
>

[Stuart A. Yeates]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM, concertm<conc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The CSV file that is produced by the PSD is in UTF-8 and this is
> signified in the download header (Content-Type: text/csv;
> charset=utf-8)

Sorry, my comments were not an attempt to malign the tool. Merely
noting that I've had bad experiences in the past with UTF-8 and CSV.

cheers
stuart

[Jane Hornibrrook]

CC International blog post about the release of NZGOAL in conjunction
with a special shout-out to the NZ Open Govt Barcamp/Hackfest and Open
Govt Ninjas

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17352

- Jane

On Aug 31, 4:03 pm, Julian <julian.car...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What a great writeup.
>

> Here's my rant about the process used in the last session:http://seradigm.co.nz/2009/08/31/action-over-words-combining-electron...