open food facts presentation odwm
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Stéphane Gigandet
European Open Data Week – Marseille – June 26th 2013
An Open and Collaborative Database
● Crowdsourcing:
● Launched in May 2012● 500 contributors● 9000 products● Open Database Licence
Not Public Data but Data of Public Interest
More transparency:● Better choices● Better products?
Local Help Wanted!
● Translation is relatively easy...● … building and developing local communities is challenging
Join us!
Today:
http://openfoodfacts.org@[email protected]
Tomorrow afternoon:
Workshop: “The New Frontiers of Crowdsourcing” with Christian Quest / OpenStreetMap
New ways, new domains, new tools, new people, new challenges