On 13/01/2009, at 12:17 PM, Gavin Carr wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:16:46PM +1100, Kieren Diment wrote:
Open Australia (http://openaustralia.org) are trying to digitise the
parliamentary register of members interest to improve transparrency
in the
federal parliament. The register at the moment is only available
in the
basement of the federal parliament in a locked filing cabinet in a
disused
toilet behind a sign which says beware of the tiger ... you get the
idea.
One of our ilk has kindly started rigging up a prototype which is
available
at github from http://github.com/TJC/openaustralia-rmidet/tree/master
If you're an Australian Catalyst coder with a few tuits, or of
you're not
Australian, but you want to get some practical experience with
crowdsourcing document transcription, please fork the git
repository and
have a play.
Are you looking for contributors, Kieren, or just for general
feedback? If
the former, is there a TODO list somewhere, or a dev mailing list or
something people can join?
Unfortunately I'm pretty low on tuits for a couple of months, but I'd
love to see this succeed - the openaustralia is pretty high visibility
in Australia, and I'd like to see more perl and catalyst programmers
doing interesting stuff in this space. As far as I can see the
problem that needs to be solved here is how to efficiently provide
crowdsourced document transcription. Toby's got a prototype that does
document display, next up I guess is getting it transcribed.
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