a possible approach to crowdsourcing and displaying tif info over the web
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Lightning talk at the inaugural meeting of the Open Government Chicago(-land) meetup group re:TRANSCRIPT
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A Possible Approach to Crowdsourcing and
Displaying TIF Info Over the Web
Using some tools stitched together
Daniel X. O’Neil, June 1, 2009OpenGovChicago(-land) Meeting
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Background• The idea of crowdsourcing TIF data came
up from the audience at the Hideout during a TIF panel
• It makes a ton of sense
• There is a Sunshine TIF ordinance, which may or may not make this easier or change the workflow
• But that won’t change the desire to understand and share
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My example: the Archer-Western TIF
•It’s new (January 2009)
•I happened to research it when doing some other stuff
•The idea is that everyone can take a pet TIF and run with it
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Tools• Versionista for monitoring Web pages
• Google News alerts to make sure we catch everything published
• Google Spreadsheets for collecting and displaying data
• Slideshare for publishing and storing documents
• WordPress for publishing the information and maintaining consistency across Web sites
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More about WordPress
• Very powerful publishing platform
• Themes allow for distributing styles, look & feel, and some functionality
• But very few (any?) people use it to distribute site content structures across the Web
• Categories, content types, link lists, instructions on gathering content-- all of this can be included in a theme
• As we all learn more about types of data, we can share info in new versions of the theme
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More about Slideshare
• Creates an embeddable file
• Great for SEO (in order to spread the amount and quality of information about a TIF
• Creates an OCR text version of the file
• Creates an RSS feed
• More distribution of canonical documents is good
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More about Google Spreadsheets
• Creates an embeddable file
• Allows for lots of people to contribute
• Creates a sharable template for collecting info
• Provides some guidance to the City as to what’s important in collecting
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Some Thoughts/Next Steps
• My instinct is to hope that these sites are flat (pure reporting/ repository of information)
• And let analysis happen in other places
• I guess we should decide if we’re buying into this platform
• Still have to talk about workflow for handling new documents