Re: [datameet] Govt. of Tamilnadu order of Content Publishing under Creative Commons

[srinivas kodali]

Thanks, looks like it can promote open access in research.

Regards,
Srinivas Kodali
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Suren  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So the order is issued by the Secretary, Tamilnadu Government. The primary
> purpose of this initiative is to ensure that the - if works in tamil are
> published under CC by SA, aided by technology, it has the potential to
> reach people globally.
>
> In essence the order says that:
>
> *1) Books & other literary works that shall be published under CC by SA*
>
>- That have been nationalized
>- Produced by the Tamil Development Department & other Government
>departments,
>- Rare books collected by the Tamil Development Department & Tamil
>University
>- Digital Copies of - Old Scrolls, Pictures & Stone carvings
>
>
> 2) *Research papers and books (subject to copyright rules) of the
> students & teachers of the Tamil University should be published on their
> website*
>
> *3) If any of the above have been procured by other Government
> departments, from Individuals or private enterprises - they too can be
> published after obtaining due permission from the owner.*
>
> The letter doesn't explicitly mentioned CC by SA for (2) & (3) but I think
> that's what was intended.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Surendran
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:39 PM, srinivas kodali 
> wrote:
>
>> There is an order by Govt. of Tamilnadu, approved last month to publish
>> govt. content under creative commons, this is a big deal for govt. data
>> too. Can someone who knows tamil translate the order and its scope?
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoTN_Tamil_Developme
>> nt_Departments_order_on_creative_commons_cc_by_sa.pdf
>>
>> Regards,
>> Srinivas Kodali
>> www.lostprogrammer.com
>>
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Re: [datameet] Fwd: Fwd: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village Boundaries

[Arun Ganesh]

> 2. I think I have asked this silly question on the group before, but have
> to ask it again: what is the 'json' format, and why is it better to put the
> data out in that format than in .shp? And how does one convert from json to
> .shp?
>
>
For starters, the property names in shapefiles is limited to 8 characters :o

You can convert from geojson to shapefiles using QGIS or ogr2ogr or a bunch
of online websites https://ogre.adc4gis.com . All modern web maps work
natively with the geojson format.

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[datameet] Fwd: Fwd: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village Boundaries

[Sharad Lele [शरच्चंद्र लेले]]

For some reason, this email by Thejesh did not show up datameet (or 
maybe I just missed it?). So forwarding it to the group.


Thejesh, thanks for this. I have two queries:

1. Is this effort different from the effort by Nisha? My impression was 
that we had (with the group) access to boundaries of many more states, 
but the issue was copyright etc, and that Nisha, you and some others 
were taking legal opinion on the same. Is what you have put out a result 
of that? What is the legal opinion?


2. I think I have asked this silly question on the group before, but 
have to ask it again: what is the 'json' format, and why is it better to 
put the data out in that format than in .shp? And how does one convert 
from json to .shp?


Thanks.
Sharad

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From: "Data{Meet}" >

Date: 15 Aug 2016 10:27
Subject: [New post] Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village 
Boundaries

To: >
Cc:

Thejesh GN posted: "One of the longest and most passionately discussed 
subject on the Data{Meet} list is the availability of Indian Village 
Boundaries in Digital format. Search for Indian Village shape files and 
you can spend hours on reading interesting conversations. Over"



   New post on *Data{Meet}*



   


   Happy Independence Day and Open Indian Village Boundaries
   


by Thejesh GN 

One of the longest and most passionately discussed subject on the 
Data{Meet} list is the availability of Indian Village Boundaries in 
Digital format. Search for Indian Village shape files 
 
and you can spend hours on reading interesting conversations.


Over last two years different members of community have tried to 
digitize 
 
the maps available through various government platforms or shared the 
maps through their organizations 
.


A look at the list discussion tells you that boundaries of at the least 
75% of the states are available in various formats and quality. What we 
need at this point is a consolidate effort to bring them all on par in 
format, attributes and to some level quality. So some volunteers at 
Data{Meet} agreed to come together, clean up the available maps, add 
attributes, make them geojson and publish them on our GitHub repository 
called Indian Village Boundaries 
.


Of course this will be an on going effort but we would love to reach a 
baseline (all states) by year end. As of now I have cleaned up and 
uploaded Gujarat. I have at the least 4 more states to go live by month 
end. Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Goa. I will announce them on the 
list as they go live.


The boundaries are organized by state using state ISO code. All the 
village boundaries are available in geojson (WGS84, EPSG4326) format. 
The project page  
gives you the status of the data as we clean and upload. Data is not 
perfect yet, there could many errors both in data and boundaries. You 
can contribute by sending the pull requests. Please use the census names 
when correcting the attributes and geojson for shapes and but please 
source them to an official source.


Like everything else community creates. All map data will be available 
under Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) 
. This data is distributed in 
the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE. If you find issues we are more than happy to accept corrections 
but please source them to an official source.


On this 70th Independence day, as we celebrate the historic event of 
India becoming Free and Independent, Data{Meet} community celebrates by 
cleaning, formatting and digitizing our village boundaries. Have a great 
time using the maps and contributing back to society.


*https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries 


*

Picture: Kedarnath range behind the Kedarnath temple early morning. By 
Kaustabh, Available under CCBYSA 
.


*Thejesh GN * | August 15, 2016 at 10:26 
am | Tags: featured 
, Indian Village 
Maps , 
Maps 

[datameet] Re: Data Visualization

[mili jain]

Thanks for the reply Ajit. I'll refer to the links you mentioned.

Actually I'm planning to use web technologies(mostly Javascript D3, JSON, 
angularJS) to create visualizations so i'm looking for those kind of 
approaches.
Certainly I won't be using R language.

On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 11:51:12 AM UTC+5:30, mili jain wrote:
>
> I have a final year project on "Data Visualization of Social Networks".
>
> Can someone please tell me where to fetch data from any social network, 
> and what possibly could be a good way to carry out the visualizations?
>

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Re: [datameet] Data Visualization

[Ajit Dhobale]

Hey Mili,

There are APIs available to extract data. For extracting twitter data, you
can refer to this:
https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api

Similarly for Facebook graph API you can refer here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview

Note that there are limitations on the amount of data you can obtain from
these APIs.
I had earlier written a post on sentiment analysis of twitter data in *R* (
http://discerndata.blogspot.in/2014/11/sentiment-analysis-of-twitter-data.html).
You can refer this to see how Twitter API can be used to obtain data.

For creating visualizations, there is a library in R called *igraph *using
which you can create visuals depicting the node connections representing a
social network.


Regards,
Ajit


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:32 AM, mili jain  wrote:

> I have a final year project on "Data Visualization of Social Networks".
>
> Can someone please tell me where to fetch data from any social network,
> and what possibly could be a good way to carry out the visualizations?
>
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[datameet] Data Visualization

[mili jain]

I have a final year project on "Data Visualization of Social Networks".

Can someone please tell me where to fetch data from any social network, 
and what possibly could be a good way to carry out the visualizations?

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[datameet] Re: Transport Working Group Call for Members

[srinivas kodali]

Here is the hangouts link for you to join the call. Join in and mute
yourself. The call starts at 11.45 and I will provide updates until 12.00.

https://hangouts.google.com/call/aqxaslb7vjaihccijm2apwwjjme

Regards,
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 5:44 PM, srinivas kodali 
wrote:

> We are having our first working group hangouts call tomorrow between 11.45
> a.m -12.30 p.m. I will share the link prior to the call, those of you who
> haven't signed up but are interested to follow updates can join us.
>
> Regards,
> Srinivas Kodali
> www.lostprogrammer.com
> *"Not everyone who wanders is lost, I am probably a bit"*
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:12 AM, srinivas kodali 
> wrote:
>
>> I have been receiving requests by some of you recently on how to
>> collaborate on some of the work related to open data in transportation and
>> help with data analysis of your own transport agency. Transport Working
>> Group was designed as an experiment whether datameet can have focused
>> groups to work on specific sectors.
>>
>> The group rather being small have been trying to work with officials of
>> various transport agencies to bring open data and policies so far, we hope
>> now with some agencies ready to open up we can work on analyzing the data
>> collectively. We had a call for members last year when the group was
>> established. We hope we have some good people wishing to volunteer or
>> collaborate as you see fit. Please submit your details in the google form
>> if you are interested. There is no selection process, this is just to
>> understand your interest areas.
>>
>> https://goo.gl/forms/BtxDNF8XsgT76UFh2
>>
>> We will have a open call on 15th Aug. to discuss this further and see how
>> many are interested and where we can take it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Srinivas Kodali
>> www.lostprogrammer.com
>>
>
>

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