Orinoco wrote:
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> I never found the globe particularly useful for events, but if others do,
> I have just done a quick search & replace of 'club' to 'event' on the Edge
> clubs map to create this new page:
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http://www.jugglingedge.com/eventmap.php
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> Any use?
I think it is cool. That said I'm nervous of the "terms of use". It
appears I've legally agreed to things just by clicking on it. There are
worst companies than Google, but I don't trust them entirely.
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> For those that are not aware all Edge data is available for reuse:
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http://www.jugglingedge.com/feeds/
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> Club & event data is already being used by the IJA & event data is being
> used by the heffZipDrop bot in ##juggling.
>
> Warning, subtle hint approaching.
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> I hope the other 2 will be sharing their data too (& I want *at least* as
> much data as I'm already collecting :)
A word about data "sharing":
At a basic level, I suspect that we all want to share data. Even if we
don't, it is pretty much impossible NOT to share data. Once anyone
publishes an event, other sites can read that data and use it.
But it gets thorny after that. For example, who is going to do the actual
work? Data often needs to be manually checked and cleaned. My
understanding is that Mini and others did this for IJDb. At Juggle
Junction, we aren't just thinking about how to display data collected by
others, we are thinking about how to best gather that data. How to make
it easiest on the organizers of clubs and events. How to give our team
tools to find the events that are currently falling through the cracks and
not being displayed. We think there is room for improvement.
There also is the question of what data to collect? We may not all want
to use the same data set. Also some data may be private. For example, I
don't plan on publishing/sharing email addresses. Right now, we (all the
juggling sites) are pretty much using the IJDb data set. That is easy for
us to share. But as we extend our website's functionality and offer the
next generation of juggling tools, it may get more difficult to do so.
Orinoco, from your statements (like the "*at least*") I'm guessing you too
want to extend the data set and hopefully improve the process. Right? By
all means lets stay in touch.
--Dave, Juggle Junction Conductor (who also would love to be at Bungay
right now)