A Possible Approach to Crowdsourcing and Displaying TIF Info Over the Web
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The document proposes an approach to crowdsourcing and sharing TIF (Tax Increment Financing) information online using tools like Google Spreadsheets, Slideshare, WordPress, and monitoring changes with Versionista. It details using Spreadsheets to collect TIF data contributed by many, Slideshare to publish documents, WordPress to maintain consistency across sites, and Versionista to monitor pages for updates. The document advocates starting with one TIF like Archer-Western as a test case and keeping the sites focused on reporting rather than analysis to distribute information widely. Next steps would be to discuss the workflow for inputting new documents.
A Possible Approach to Crowdsourcing and Displaying TIF Info Over the Web
- 1. A Possible Approach to Crowdsourcing and Displaying TIF Info Over the Web Using some tools stitched together Daniel X. O’Neil, June 1, 2009 OpenGovChicago(-land) Meeting
- 2. Background The idea of crowdsourcing TIF data came up from the audience at the Hideout during a TIF panel It makes a ton of sense There is a Sunshine TIF ordinance, which may or may not make this easier or change the workflow But that won’t change the desire to understand and share
- 3. My example: the Archer-Western TIF It’s new (January 2009) I happened to research it when doing some other stuff The idea is that everyone can take a pet TIF and run with it
- 5. Tools Versionista for monitoring Web pages Google News alerts to make sure we catch everything published Google Spreadsheets for collecting and displaying data Slideshare for publishing and storing documents WordPress for publishing the information and maintaining consistency across Web sites
- 6. More about WordPress Very powerful publishing platform Themes allow for distributing styles, look & feel, and some functionality But very few (any?) people use it to distribute site content structures across the Web Categories, content types, link lists, instructions on gathering content-- all of this can be included in a theme As we all learn more about types of data, we can share info in new versions of the theme
- 8. More about Slideshare Creates an embeddable file Great for SEO (in order to spread the amount and quality of information about a TIF Creates an OCR text version of the file Creates an RSS feed More distribution of canonical documents is good
- 10. More about Google Spreadsheets Creates an embeddable file Allows for lots of people to contribute Creates a sharable template for collecting info Provides some guidance to the City as to what’s important in collecting
- 13. Some Thoughts/ Next Steps Next Steps My instinct is to hope that these sites are flat (pure reporting/ repository of information) And let analysis happen in other places I guess we should decide if we’re buying into this platform Still have to talk about workflow for handling new documents