There are some quite a good open source tool in the emergency management community for handling this kind of stuff.
I recommend http://swiftly.org/sweeper.html. We could use this to collect tweets (& and lots of other content) and should be able to allocate tasks without duplication. It uses some neat machine learning to make life easier over time. On 6 July 2011 19:10, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Kaitlyn (Kat) Braybrooke > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me know if you want me to find anything specifically! > > If you spot new initiatives then it would be very useful to try to > catch up with them. Specifically: > > * New data catalogues (e.g. country X or city Y has launched a new > data catalogue) - action: > - add it to datacatalogs.org and email ckan-discuss list to let > them know you've done so. > - invite representatives from new initiative to open-government list > * Any cool new projects - action: > - Tweet or email them, asking for guest blog post, with Theodora > and [email protected] in cc > - invite them to relevant mailing lists (e.g. open-government, > wdmmg-discuss or ckan-discuss) > > Does this make sense? > > Lucy: do you also follow #opendata? > > J. > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://blog.okfn.org > > http://twitter.com/jwyg > http://identi.ca/jwyg >
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