Getting started

From LinkedGov

Welcome! Below are some sections that should help you familiarise yourself with us.

Contents 1 Finding your way around 2 Help us build LinkedGov 2.1 Games 2.2 Question site 2.3 Styling 2.4 Google refine extension 3 Using LinkedGov's data 3.1 Government data 3.2 Data formats 4 Teams 5 Chatroom

Finding your way around

• Home page: http://linkedgov.org/
• Wiki: http://wiki.linkedgov.org/
• Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedGov
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/linkedgov
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LinkedGov
• IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/linkedgov

Help us build LinkedGov

Want to help out? LinkedGov is currently focusing community help on two main areas for the time being:

1. The importer
2. Games
3. The question site

To see what's been done or what's still left to do, tasks are kept under the following to do lists:

• Administrative tasks
• The developers' to do list
• The engagement to do list
• The governance to do list

Games

• Use HTML5 for a game for offline use
• Build a new game

Question site

• Add a feature to the question site (e.g. for location data returned in the answers, show the locations on a map!)

Styling

• Mock up / apply style improvements across the different areas of LinkedGov.

Google refine extension

If you're keen to help out with building / adding features to our Google Refine extension, there are different areas of the extension that can be worked on:

Index page:

• Extension/index page

Project page:

• Extension/project page
• Extension/typing panel
• Extension/wizards panel
• Extension/labelling panel

Or go to Category:Google_Refine

Using LinkedGov's data

API specs, terms of use, data formats.

Government data

Mind map of government data: http://mind42.com/pub/mindmap?mid=2cdf7d3c-09a4-442b-bae7-882e03b9ad34

Data formats

For examples of the following data formats, see Data format examples.

Around the wiki, you will come across various different data formats. LinkedGov tends to take in common data formats as an input, such as:

• CSV (Comma separated values)
• TSV (Tab separated values)
• XLS (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
• XLSX (Microsoft Office Open XML Workbook)
• XML (Extensible Markup Language)

And produces/makes use of more structured & meaningful data, in formats such as:

• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
• RDF (Resource Description Framework)
• Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language) / N3 (Notation 3)
• OWL (Web Ontology Language)
• SPARQL (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language)

Teams

• Core tech development team
• Technical documentation team
• Quality assessment team
• Question site team
• Engagement and advocacy team
• The LinkedGov Community Council
• The LinkedGov Strategic Board
• The LinkedGov Advisory Board
• The LinkedGov management team
• Standards development groups
• Games developers
• Game players (users)
• Data consumers

Chatroom

Friends and family of LinkedGov stay in touch on IRC, drop in and say hi!

IRC Server: irc.freenode.net

IRC Channel: #linkedgov

irc://irc.freenode.net/linkedgov