Hi community,
here at Rostock we think about improving our platform "klarschiff" to
manage multiple instances. During the past months, we encouraged further
ciities at the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that started off their
own Klarschiff-clones based on our codebase. Unfortunatly this doesn't
scale well, as hosting a seperated instance is not attractive for small
towns, while a single county-wide platform is hard to maintain.
This is where we got the idea that an federated / decentralized
approach would be great. Similar to peer2peer networks the instances
would be able to work together and form an meta-platform. This allows
endusers to submit issues via every instance and organisations on
central or selfhosted instances to work together as teams.
We would also solve the problem, that there are organisations that are
spread over the whole state (e.g. road authorities, railway
companies, ...) which everybody needs to contact. And it solves the
teamwork of close organisations on the same level (e.g. county
governments), that need to work together, when issues are close at the
shared borders.
Our main goals:
- submit and move issues between instances (and notify about progress)
- teamwork of backend users between instances (assign issues, comments,
progress, ...)
- mutable organisations (e.g. central country-wide server can later be
splitted to dedicated servers per county) over time
We don't like to reinvent the wheel. One idea is to extend the
open311/CitySDK spec. for additional commands, but this a lot of work
and makes the design more complex, while we have to deal with legacy
specs. Another idea is to use the new W3C Activitypub standard
www.activitypub.rocks that has growing popularity at social web.
Are there any opinions and maybe experiences at the open311 community?
I'm not sure, if we could manage it, to create an general standard, but
of course we think in a global scope and are aware of an internatl
open311 community :-)
regards from Germany,
Matthias Meißer
regional geoinformationsystems
Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock
Der Oberbürgermeister
Kataster-, Vermessungs- und Liegenschaftsamt
Abt. Kataster
Holbeinplatz 14, 18069 Rostock
Tel.: +49 (0)381 381 6221
Fax: +49 (0)381 381 6902
E-Mail: <email obscured>
here at Rostock we think about improving our platform "klarschiff" to
manage multiple instances. During the past months, we encouraged further
ciities at the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern that started off their
own Klarschiff-clones based on our codebase. Unfortunatly this doesn't
scale well, as hosting a seperated instance is not attractive for small
towns, while a single county-wide platform is hard to maintain.
This is where we got the idea that an federated / decentralized
approach would be great. Similar to peer2peer networks the instances
would be able to work together and form an meta-platform. This allows
endusers to submit issues via every instance and organisations on
central or selfhosted instances to work together as teams.
We would also solve the problem, that there are organisations that are
spread over the whole state (e.g. road authorities, railway
companies, ...) which everybody needs to contact. And it solves the
teamwork of close organisations on the same level (e.g. county
governments), that need to work together, when issues are close at the
shared borders.
Our main goals:
- submit and move issues between instances (and notify about progress)
- teamwork of backend users between instances (assign issues, comments,
progress, ...)
- mutable organisations (e.g. central country-wide server can later be
splitted to dedicated servers per county) over time
We don't like to reinvent the wheel. One idea is to extend the
open311/CitySDK spec. for additional commands, but this a lot of work
and makes the design more complex, while we have to deal with legacy
specs. Another idea is to use the new W3C Activitypub standard
www.activitypub.rocks that has growing popularity at social web.
Are there any opinions and maybe experiences at the open311 community?
I'm not sure, if we could manage it, to create an general standard, but
of course we think in a global scope and are aware of an internatl
open311 community :-)
regards from Germany,
Matthias Meißer
regional geoinformationsystems
Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock
Der Oberbürgermeister
Kataster-, Vermessungs- und Liegenschaftsamt
Abt. Kataster
Holbeinplatz 14, 18069 Rostock
Tel.: +49 (0)381 381 6221
Fax: +49 (0)381 381 6902
E-Mail: <email obscured>