gfdrr/open-risk-data-dashboard

Repository for the Open Data for Resilience Index, a website to track and improve the state of Open Data for Resilience worldwide.

The Open Data for Resilience Index assesses the state of open data for disaster risk management across the globe. It provides a list of key datasets that are needed for reducing vulnerability and building resilience to natural hazards, and that should be made available as open data for any country. Anyone can contribute to the index by submitting information on a dataset.

The Open Data for Resilience Index is managed by the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI). Together with other tools and initiatives such as ThinkHazard!, Geonode, Inasafe and the Understanding Risk community, it aims at improving risk information through better access to data.

OpenDRI

In 2011, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Open Data for Resilience Initiative to apply the concepts of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. OpenDRI supports World Bank Regional Disaster Risk Management Teams to build capacity and long-term ownership of open data projects with client countries that are tailored to meet specific needs and goals of stakeholders.

Acknowledgements

The Open Data for Resilience Index has been developed and is being maintained in partnership with CIMA Foundation, Global Earthquake Model and Deltares. The Open Data for Resilience Index is inspired by the Open Data Index of Open Knowledge and the Open Data Barometer of the Web Foundation. It applies the idea of tracking and assessing open data to the Disaster Risk Management sector.

Licenses and terms of use

The Open Data for Resilience Index is available under the GNU General Public License, Version 3, 29 June 2007 and the source code is available on Github. Unless specified, data and texts of the website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-SA 4.0). Homepage picture: Kofu, Japan, by Joseph Chan available on Unsplash under an open license.

Disclaimer

Information available on the Open Data for Resilience Index is collected through a crowdsourced effort by registered users and then reviewed by a team of Disaster Risk Management and Open Data specialists. Although it aims to provide accurate and up to date information, the Open Data for Resilience Index cannot guarantee the accuracy and freshness of all information related to key datasets available on the website.

open-risk-data-dashboard's Issues

Countries View - TBD

• Same line of icons as for One country view
• Make it clear when icons or selected or not (per default all icons are selected)

Table view (default view)

• For each country: Rank, Countries name, Openness score (based on selected icons), Datasets submitted, Datasets missing

Map view

Review and simplify openness scoring methodology

#Openness scoring is very confusing for users and needs to be reviewed.

Some suggestion below to discuss below:

• Remove weight relative to datasets and depending on hazards and risk data categories as it is too confusing (Final report: 4.4.2 Data category scoring);
• Use a simple calculation methodology. e.g SUM (for each datasets openness)/ Number of datasets to consider;
• Decide what to do for datasets with more than one valid submission;
• Better communicate on new scoring methodology through homepage, countries, country, methodology and submit dataset pages;

Several rendering and layout issue in IE 11 (default version on WB computers)

Add a navigation pane to the methodology page

Add a navigation pane to the methodology page, either at the top or on the side.

Submit dataset - Add links button

"+ Add Link" should be placed on the right side of the text box so that the user understands that he has to click on it to actually input and save the link.

Improve design of filter boxes in country page

• It's not obvious that grey boxes can be used to filter results with free-text
• Unclear if the text filter applies only to titles or descriptions of each entry too
• For consistency, filters should also be available for the other columns

Long country names not formatted correctly in table view

Contribute page - Dataset description should not be an entry field

"Dataset Description" is not an entry field but a text which depends on the selected "Dataset" AND "Scale".
It is suggested to add the description in a text box below the dataset name that will change depending on the "Dataset" and "Scale".

Clicking on icons in Countries page doesn't work

https://dev.riskopendata.org/countries.html

Clicking on icons of hazard types just above the map does not seem to do anything...

Maybe because there's not enough data?

Notify reviewers when new dataset submitted

Send an email to all reviewers when a new dataset is submitted with link to the dataset to review.

FE - National level only filter

Relevant to discussion related to issue #71, please add filter (national level only) on following FE pages (please check if no other page/feature is missing):

• contribute.html (description)
• dataset_list.html (list of dataset)
• countries.html (score)
• index.html (indicators)
• stats.html

cc @nastasi-oq @CIMAManuel

Submit dataset - Edit it's own submission

It should be possible for a contributor to edit it's own submissions before validation by reviewer.

Missing LICENSE file

As described here https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/
We should add a LICENSE file for GPL v3

Missing legend in countries map

Unclear otherwise what the different shades of orange/red mean...

https://dev.riskopendata.org/countries.html

Google analytics

Add google analytics to the site.

Layout of columns in homepage may be confusing

The second and third boxes seem to provide summary statistics of data types and data specific for each hazard. The column layout seems to suggest a correlation between the two, but there's an empty (white) column in the second box (between totals and icons), which is then filled with applicable for in the third box below.

Also, would be good to provide more explicit titles for what each section/box included in the homepage presents to the users.

Homepage

• Clear distinction between header and main content of the homepage
• Big title: Tracking and improving Open Data for Resilience worldwide
• Show icons and labels such as on ThinkHazard! or Country View
• Add those indicators: XX datasets submitted | YY percent open | ZZ countries covered. Move other indicators to a specific page.
• Buttons: Explore countries | Submit new dataset

Add visual diagram to methodology page

Would be really useful for users to understand how the index values are calculated.

Get the data

Add a data export feature so that users can download all datasets entries as a spreadsheet (csv preferred) in one bulk download. Data download link may be added in the countries view.

Change generic font

Change generic text font to Unit.

Contribute page - Add text entry fields to provide justification and additional information to questions

We suggest to add a text entry field for most of the questions in order to provide justification to the answer and / or also give useful info to the user.

Does the data exist? (*)

Name of the agency or organization that collects the data

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Is data in digital form? (*) Yes No

No additional text entry field needed

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Is the data available online? (*) Yes No

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Publicly available? (*) Yes No

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Is the metadata and/or documentation available online? (*) Yes No

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Available in bulk? (*) Yes No

No additional text entry field needed

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Is the data machine- readable? (*) Yes No

In which formats? Text entry field (or better tags for different formats)

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Is the data available for free of charge? (*) Yes No

No additional text entry field needed

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Openly licensed? (*) Yes No

URL or name of the license

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Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? (*)

Date of last update

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Source URL to the data and metadata (can add more than one)

New version of key datasets

New version of key datasets is currently under revision by Andreas. Please wait for green light from him before applying changes to backend.

Fix behavior of clicking on icons on each country page

This is either a bug or it's not clear to me how numbers in Dataset instances and Missing Datasets change when the user starts clicking on each of the data and hazard type icons.

Also, if clicking once means selected and clicking again means not selected it should be made more clear than just changing color from red to blue.

Hide countries that don't have data in table view

If at some point there will be a possibility to filter the table view, would be good to have countries with no data automatically hidden by default.

Resize the homepage so that buttons appear on most screens.

Resize the homepage so that buttons "Submit a dataset" and "Explore countries" appear on most screens without scowling down.

Not clear what Dataset Instances and Missing Datasets mean

Maybe a mouseover tooltip or a link that explains what these mean in the context of this project. Otherwise it's not immediate what instances and missing mean...

Add "beta" to the title

The title should read Open Data for Resilience Index beta with the term beta in a smaller size.

Add OpenDRI and UR logos in the footer

Add OpenDRI and UR logos in the footer, on the same line as GFDRR.

You can find logos here http://gfdrr.github.io/innovation-lab-brand-guidelines/brand-guidelines/brand-architecture.html

Make download links (when available) more prominent

I would expect many user would come to this portal also to find their way to download data. So would be good to make the download links more prominent in the each dataset details page, or directly from the list of layers next to each Review and Details icons.

Contribute page - Fields to be renamed

We suggest to rename "Dataset category" to "Dataset" as a category is already used for "Data category" and this may cause confusion.

We suggest renaming "Data category" to "Risk data category" and keep consistency on this throughout the website.

The term "Scale" and the different related options (global, national, local) may be also ambiguous as the 3 levels of definitions for a dataset may not be related to the geographic coverage or origin.
We would, therefore, prefer the term "Quality" or "Quality level" and something such as (low, standard, high) for options. This would give us more flexibility in the way we define the 3 levels for each dataset.

Add icon to browser tab

Add a list of key datasets in methodology page

Add a table of all key datasets, their description and best practice examples in the methodology page or if too much content in a specific sub-page within methodology category.

Additional content for Documentation page

• Need to provide more information on the who/what/how of submissions.
• Add contact information.
• The “Data collection process” section is incomplete

Feedback form not working

I got a message "Error, feedback not sent!" when trying to send feedbacks.

Registration instead of Request

To be consistent, it should say Registration Form instead of Request form

https://dev.riskopendata.org/register.html

Country view - TBD

Country view:

Dataset

• Dataset name
• Organization:
• Tags:
• More info

Submission date

Questions

Actions

• Review
• See details
• Get the data

Registration process enhancement

1. Ask all profile information in the registration page (Title, First name, Last name, E-mail (), Institution, Username (), Password (8 characters min) (), Password confirmation () ) and does not ask to complete profile page after registration confirmation.
2. Ask for password to be more than 8 characters and another field to repeat/confirm your password.
3. Modifiy registration confirmation message accordingly: "Thanks, you can now submit a dataset." instead of "Thanks for confirming your profile. Please complete your profile to submit a dataset."
4. Registration email is coming from [email protected], it should come from a generic email [email protected]
5. On the profile, the title box should read "Ex: Dr" instead of "es: Drs" https://www.riskopendata.org/contribute.html#profile

Headers in table view disappear when scrolling

When scrolling down through the list of countries in table view, headers for each column (with data type and icon) disappear under the frame above.

Back button

There is a Back button on several pages of the website. I am wondering whether this button is necessary. If not, it should be removed.

Requirements for index.opendri.org

The be able to expose the application under the index.opendri.org host we need:

1. an A DNS record pointing to 51.15.218.228
2. an HTTPS certificate for index.opendri.org; this could be provided via LetsEncrypt
3. SPF and DKIM records to allow 51.15.218.228 to send emails on behalf of the index.opendri.org and/or opendri.org domains

Eventually point 3 can be replaced by an SMTP relay provided by opendri accepting connections from 51.15.218.228

Remove send us feedback pop-up message

Remove send us feedback pop-up message. Instead, add a feedback button or link in the top right-hand corner.

Login - Forgot your password?

Add a forgot your password feature on the login page.

Remove help page and change methodology to documentation page

Remove help page and change Methodology to Documentation page.

For next version, I suggest to use Use ReadTheDoc as template hosted on our server OR hosted on https://readthedocs.org/ cc @vdeparday ?

Diagram appear twice in the methodology

Review registration messages

• 1. On register page, when clicking on Send request, the message should be clearer, something like: Registration confirmation sent to [email]. Please check your mailbox.

• 2. Please modify the content of the registration confirmation email with the following text: "Thanks for your request to register to the Open Data for Resilience Index. Please confirm your registration by clicking on the button below. "

• 3. Registration confirmed page: Remove "Registration complete correctly!" instead: "Thanks, you can now complete your profile or submit a dataset" with appropriate links.

Update "About" page

Need to beef up this section a bit – Why is this website/database needed? What kind of data is available? How to use the site, by whom? Is this a crowdsourced database – how to contribute?
Where is the “feedback form available on every page of the website”?
How does the site relate to Open DRI, GFDRR, and Understanding Risk (bear in mind the subdomain name: index.opendri.org)?

Contribute page - Replace "Datasets TAGS" by "Datasets elements" or "characteristics"

During previous calls, it was suggested to give the possibility for a user to confirm wether characteristics or data elements are present in the dataset. Those elements should be clearly defined in the definition of the dataset and the user should then have the possibility to confirm their presence by selecting related checkboxes (tags). It should not be possible to add other elements as this would be part of the dataset definition.

Suggested text: Confirm that the following characteristics are present in the dataset

Update email template

Update email template with new content from CIMA

Contribute page - Highlight dataset, scale and country entry fields

A key dataset is defined by the "Country", the "Dataset category" AND the "Scale". We suggest therefore to highlight those entry fields by for instance bringing them at the top of the page.

Countries Table View

Below is a list of enhancements suggested for the view table:

• By default, sort countries by score, from the highest to the lowest and possibility to hide countries with no datasets.
• Some country's names such as The Democratic Republic of Congo are too long for the box. Please fixe it for instance by using css "text-overflow: ellipsis" property.
• Remove the scroll bar of the table which is unecessary and not user friendly and keep header when scrolling down. I think you can do it by removing fixed height for div #tab1 .jumbotron.