Community and Official

[David Portabella]

Hello,

What does it mean for a dataset to have a "Community source"?

Why some datasets have a "Community source" and a "Official source" at
the same time?
For instance: http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1014853


Best regards,
DAvid

[Seema Sharma]

Hi David,

I'm not sure where you are seeing that both the "community source" and the "official source" labels on this page.

Generally, when you are looking at our listing of data sets, there is a distinction between "community" and "official" sources in that community data just mean it can come from any of our users, where as official data comes from those users who are a part of our official source program. You can read more about the program here http://www.swivel.com/official

In the link that you sent me, the official source stamp at the top of the page under the title of the data set denotes that one of our official source users (the OECD); the URL listed as the source under the picture gives you a link to where exactly the data is coming from (if you wanted to dive into more information about the data directly from the source).

Definitely let me know if you are still confused about this!

-Seema

[David Portabella]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, in the page you see it as "Official source".
However, can find this data set when you browse in the Community set.

For instance, (this example may change soon)
if you go to:
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets
and browse by All categories, Community Source, Most viewed sorted,
**This week time range**, All tags
or directly this url:
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets?sort=view_count&filter=none&view=list&sort_direction=DESC&official=false&when=week

in the first page, you'll find the project "Evolution of the
population"
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1015584

which is tagged as "official source".
however, I found it browsing the community source...


Am I misunderstanding something?


Many thanks,
DAvid

On May 9, 6:32 pm, "Seema Sharma" <se...@swivel.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I'm not sure where you are seeing that both the "community source" and the
> "official source" labels on this page.
>
> Generally, when you are looking at our listing of data sets, there is a
> distinction between "community" and "official" sources in that community
> data just mean it can come from any of our users, where as official data
> comes from those users who are a part of our official source program. You

> can read more about the program herehttp://www.swivel.com/official

>
> In the link that you sent me, the official source stamp at the top of the
> page under the title of the data set denotes that one of our official source
> users (the OECD); the URL listed as the source under the picture gives you a
> link to where exactly the data is coming from (if you wanted to dive into
> more information about the data directly from the source).
>
> Definitely let me know if you are still confused about this!
>
> -Seema
>

> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:50 AM, David Portabella <david.portabe...@gmail.com>

[Seema Sharma]

Hi David,

Now I see what you were talking about. What we had originally meant by "Community source" was everyone's data: we put in the "Official" option underneath it so that you have the option to see only all of the official source data.

There seems to be some kind of bug though which is why you are getting confused...our engineers are looking into this.

Let me know if you continue to have problems!

-Seema