Kieren Diment wrote:
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.
I had some good free time over the Xmas break (aren't family wonderful?
;) but am also fairly busy during January.. should improve by the end of
the month though.
My short-term plans for the prototype are:
* Include the recently-released per-senator PDFs into the pdf-to-jpeg
conversion stream.
* Create a DBIC schema that represents the data we need to capture.
* Create login/logout pages, and admin pages to manage users.
* Create pages to allow you to select a senator or minister to work
upon, and then uses JQuery tabs for all the different info that can be
recorded. Uses type-ahead searching for company names, suburbs, ASX
stock symbols, etc.
* Create review pages for admins to compare what users have done vs
the pages it allegedly was transcribed from.
-Toby
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