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GOVIS – visualising government

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:36 +0000

A collaborative workspace for the visualisation of government structures, functions and datasets.

Currently this uses the Commonwealth Agency data released by the National Archives and the goal is to link this to all the other datasets that have been released.

NeoGopher 16 lists and 26 HTTP APIs

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:45:23 +0000

Our submission has two parts:

Part one: 16 MashupAustralia lists in NeoGopher.
NeoGopher is a universa data browser developed in Melbourne, Australia and is designed to allow browsing of an HTTP web based API. NeoGopher is the intersection of linked data and the web. We have created 16 NeoGopher lists, each list presenting a data set from data.australia.gov.au. To see our MashupAustralia lists, download NeoGopher http://www.neogopher.com/downloads.shtml

Part two: 26 HTTP web based APIs.
We have converted CSV and XLS data from data.australia.gov.au into 26 HTTP web based XML APIs. These APIs are accessible by the public and support Xquery access including searching, sorting, paging and return compressed XML.

Firelocator

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:30:19 +0000

Pitney Bowes FireLocator federates and integrates the most current data from multiple sources to provide a seamless user experience. These datasets include the Rural Fire Service in NSW, Country Fire Authority in Victoria, satellite hotspots from Geoscience Australia’s Sentinel, as well as Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census population figures showing the potential impact of a fire on the community. The aim of this site is to provide a public service that shows locations of all bush fire emergencies across Australia, helping the public to be well informed during a fire emergency. A user can search for their house and see fire fronts (NSW RFS and Vic CFA), fire hot spots (Geoscience Australia), get an understand of the population that maybe affect by a fire (ABS data), and see Flickr photo’s of fire information. The incorporation of weather information is planned for the future. All the raw data is collated by the solution and plotted on a map so all users can enter a street address or town to visually see the threat that the location is under and quickly put in place contingency planning. The website draws on imagery sourced from Flickr, to show geo-tagged photos of the bushfires and their aftermath to give a sense of the situation on the ground. This website was originally established during the 2009 Victorian fires as a public service. All data feeds have been established through agreements with the relevant agencies. This same concept has been implemented in the US for the Californian wildfires.

In Their Honour

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:25:05 +0000

In Their Honour is a mashup dedicated to the service men and women who fought and died for Australia. We have indexed over 100,000 service records and linked them to their burial location in one of over 3000 War Cemeteries in Europe and around the world.

We have also taken the WWI photographs from the Australian War Memorial and created a Timemap. A chronological and geographical, photographic record of Australia’s experiences during wartime. We hope to extend this to include other photographic collections, integrate historical events and user contributed personal histories.

In Their Honour is an invaluable resource for teachers, genealogist and researchers studying Australia’s wartime experience and particularly for family members locating their relative’s final resting place.

Features:

Searchable database of over 100,000 service men and women.
Detail page for each individual in the index.
Links to service records.
Photograph of cemetery or memorial.
Detail pages for almost 4000 War Graves and Cemeteries, worldwide.
Links to additional cemetery information.
Driving directions
Geographical and chronological photographic record.

justRcorner.net

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:09:36 +0000

This is a demonstration site (Newcastle NSW only) that seeks to explore how mobile phones can be used by neighborhoods and communities (in this case by people with disabilities and their carers) to gather local information, build local knowledge and integrate this with traditional statistical (ABS), administrative and planning data within a community data repository.