Past work of the Project Center

In the years the VPC has been active, there have been a few projects that worked on managing the data gathered from other Venice IQPs.

The first data management project created a site to aggregate and visualize the data from the previous twenty years of projects (Brunelli, Orsi & Sargent 2010). This was the first time that there was a project with a significant effort dedicated solely to organizing the data of the VPC. This created the Venice 2.0 site, which is the previous version of the Venice 2.5 site that currently exists as of the writing of this post.

That same year, a group worked on the original Venipedia. They created the site because there was no easy way to access the data stores of the VPC. They modeled their site as a wiki to allow anyone to be able to contribute (Finelli, O'Brien & Scannell 2010). Two years after the original Venipedia project, a group improved Venipedia by migrating it to a new location and filtering its content. Due to the open nature of the wiki, the site was “plagued by spam” and riddled with errors, especially due to contributors not following submission guidelines (Bobell, McCarthy, Poganski & Tsiros 2012). Though it is invaluable to the Venice Project Center, this site shows one of the potential weaknesses of Open Data collaboration: standards enforcement.