A description of a system I am hacking together for National Hack the Government Day 2011. Charlie allows linked open data to be crowdsourced with very little effort.

1. Democratic datawith Charlie National Hack the Government Day Aberdeen 26 March, 2011

2. open data is good

3. democratic data is better

4. open data push is nice so far it has been top down big organisations big data sets what about people?

5. Introducing Charlie

6. Charlie is a platform for crowdsourcing linked open data

7. It will work like this

8. Step 1: identify a useful lump of data This is a Bundle

9. Technical bit: A bundle consists of a set of classes and properties which, when populated, result in a self-contained lump of data

10. Example: Potholes FillThatHole.org.uk Hazard type Description Size/depth Location Date

11. These values constitute a useful description of a pothole

12. Step 2: publish the bundle to Charlie

13. There is no step 3

14. From the semantics of the data, and the semantics of the bundle, a web interface, mobile application, reports, and RDF repository can be built

15. You can publish these URIs and start crowdsourcing your data immediately

16. Follow me @ed80 for updates and a URI let me know if you are interested in helping