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"Releasing data and making it analyzable could eventually become more important than any other technology-enabled innovation to date, reaching agencies and jurisdictions across the U.S. and around the globe."
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CivicDB Wiki
Welcome to the CivicDB wiki. This is a technical repository where you will be able to find information on the project, how to contribute, and a whole slew of other information.
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What is CivicDB?
The goal of our community is to develop an open source platform to help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats. Raw data, freely available to the public, allows for open-ended analysis by the community at large. The CivicDB community believes that government is more transparent and open when data is liberated.
How do I Participate?
- Join our mailing list
- Attend our weekly meetings
- Read/contribute to our Documentation
- Add an idea to our ideas page
How CivicDB Started
Inspired by President Obama's January 21 memo on transparency, government organizations are looking to fulfill their commitment to openness. The challenge for each is the same: exposing data from thousands of disparate technology systems to a central clearinghouse through machine readable formats. We think that an open and community based approach is likely to produce the best solution in terms of quality, cost and sustainability.
CivicDB Team
The community is sponsored by the City & County of San Francisco. We are actively seeking other municipalities and developers interested in government transparency. Learn more about our community and join our mailing list.
CivicDB Community Principles
- We are equal individuals in an open community.
- Leadership can emerge from anywhere.
- We are all participants.
Borrowed from Toronto TransitCamp
Where Are We Now
The project started in June 2009 and is focused on establishing a standard information architecture design that allows for government publication of data.
What We Need to do
The list below is by no means complete but serves to highlight some of the work that needs to be completed.
- Outreach to other government organizations and developers [Continuous]
- Design information Architecture [Final]
- Create simple back-end Prototype [In progress]
- Design user interface
- Create simple front-end prototype
- Develop pilot and production releases
Documentation
You can delve further into CivicDB by reading our Documentation, FAQ page, Project Scope and our Misc page.
