Talk at LIFT 2012

This week I’m at LIFT 2012 to give a talk on Open Data — and also to meet with the great bunch of Swisss Open Data folks!

Update 2012-02-24: Slides up

Open Data: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going

Abstract

Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote. But we have only just begun down this road, and the going, even so far, has not always been easy.

This talk will introduce the idea of open data, explain how, and why, we are where we are today, and, finally, look to the future of the rapidly evolving open data ecoystem.

Weekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 20th February 2012

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Weekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 13th February 2012

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Speaking on Digging into Open Data at Data Insights Meetup in Cambridge Today

I’ll be talking at Data Insights Meetup today on the topic of Digging into Open Data.

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Abstract

There has been growing interest, especially in government, in ‘open data’. This talk will explain what open data is, why it is important and go on to cover some of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s recent work in this area.

About the Open Knowledge Foundation

The Open Knowledge Foundation has been a pioneer in the field of open data since its inception in 2004. It works in a wide array of areas from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata. Its open-source CKAN software powers http://data.gov.uk/, http://thedatahub.org/ and dozens of other open data hubs around the world. For more information about the Foundation see http://okfn.org/ and http://okfn.org/projects.

Weekly Update: Rufus Pollock – 30th January 2012

2012-01-30

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Film: Haywire

7.5 (8.5 for genre). Stylish with an excellent lead performance (its pared down presentation and plot had echoes of the classic Point Blank).

Though lacking in any great substance (cf, to say, The American) it consistently held one’s attention from the very first shot to the closing credits — something to be said of very few films of this kind.

ANN: PyWordPress – Python WordPress Library using the WordPress XML-RPC API

Announcing PyWordpress, a Python library for WordPress that provides a pythonic interface to WordPress using the WordPress XML-RPC API:

Along with a wrapper for the main functions it also provides various helper methods, for example to create many pages at once. This is somewhat of a belated announce as the first version of this was written almost a year ago!

Usage

Command line

Check out the commands::

wordpress.py -h 

Commands::

create_many_pages: Create many pages at once (and only create pages which do not already exist).
delete_all_pages: Delete all pages (i.e. delete_page for each page in instance).
delete_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.deletePage
edit_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.editPage
get_authors: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getAuthors
get_categories: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getCategories
get_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getPage
get_page_list: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getPageList
get_pages: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getPages
get_tags: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getTags
init_from_config: Class method to initialize a `Wordpress` instance from an ini file.
new_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.newPage

You will need to create a config with the details (url, login) of the wordpress instance you want to work with::

cp config.ini.tmpl config.ini
# now edit away ...
vim config.ini

Python library

Read the code documentation::

>>> from pywordpress import WordPress
>>> help(WordPress)

License

MIT-licensed: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Weekly Update: Rufus Pollock

This covers the last 2 weeks as I did not manage an update last week.

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  • Mon-Thurs: but in Boston Mon-Tues and travelling back to UK Wednesday

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