A very good example of maintaining quality information and making it available
When you look at the years were an elections has taken place, there is an mp3 file with the speech of the Major. I advise to listen to the 1979's recorded message.
The minutes of the meetings are hand written
About 1995, summer 95, you can also notice that they move from a typewritting machine to a computer.
diumenge, 31 d’octubre del 2010
Data flyes away
I've contacted with Municat, the organization holding the up-to-date information, but they informed me they they had never taken care of storing the historical data base.
Unbelievable. The effort of getting and sorting all the information about the composition of the governments of 100% of the Catalan Municipalities, lost, that easy. Probably a problem of capacity, but not a hard disk capacity !!
Since this doors is closed, I will go ahead with the one to one contact
Unbelievable. The effort of getting and sorting all the information about the composition of the governments of 100% of the Catalan Municipalities, lost, that easy. Probably a problem of capacity, but not a hard disk capacity !!
Since this doors is closed, I will go ahead with the one to one contact
dissabte, 23 d’octubre del 2010
The source of the data has been found !
I have been able to become student of the Barcelona University since the 13th of October.
The next step will be to register the Doctoral Dissertation, but meanwhile I was going ahead with my research about the data covering the 70 cities and towns.
The first contacts, by e-mail, absolutely disapointing: no answer at all, so yesterday I was planning to take some holidays in order to be able to pay a visit to some of the cities, to investigate on site
I'm asking to the information services of the municipalities about the seat distribution for each party after the six elections since 1987.
But today, only by coincidence, searching in the internet for the address of the hockey place where my son had to play in the afternoon, I saw in the Wikipedia a link to a catalan organization, belonging to the regional government, holding the data. My data !!!
I'm ready to call them Monday, early in the morning
Yesterday we agreed to have all the documentation in English, instead of Catalan
The next step will be to register the Doctoral Dissertation, but meanwhile I was going ahead with my research about the data covering the 70 cities and towns.
The first contacts, by e-mail, absolutely disapointing: no answer at all, so yesterday I was planning to take some holidays in order to be able to pay a visit to some of the cities, to investigate on site
I'm asking to the information services of the municipalities about the seat distribution for each party after the six elections since 1987.
But today, only by coincidence, searching in the internet for the address of the hockey place where my son had to play in the afternoon, I saw in the Wikipedia a link to a catalan organization, belonging to the regional government, holding the data. My data !!!
I'm ready to call them Monday, early in the morning
Yesterday we agreed to have all the documentation in English, instead of Catalan
dilluns, 30 d’agost del 2010
next station: end of September
The commitee was not able to take the decission about my request in July, so probably they will check it again end of September.
Meanwhile few tasks to perform, trying to advance a little bit in the investigation:
1. Which towns having more than 20k inhabitants, or being a county capital, had a coalition in the local government since 1.987's elections ?. I made a list of 70
2. Which ones of the above towns have information available in the website, about the history of the responsabilities assumed by the different political parties ?: none.
This means that I will have to contact each one if I want to get the detailed information
The main impact will be that instead of working with figures comming from a database created by someone else, usually the official statistical institute, I'll have to record primary ( raw ) data myself, and the conseqüence is that I have to reserve some holidays for this ( noble ) purpose
Meanwhile few tasks to perform, trying to advance a little bit in the investigation:
1. Which towns having more than 20k inhabitants, or being a county capital, had a coalition in the local government since 1.987's elections ?. I made a list of 70
2. Which ones of the above towns have information available in the website, about the history of the responsabilities assumed by the different political parties ?: none.
This means that I will have to contact each one if I want to get the detailed information
The main impact will be that instead of working with figures comming from a database created by someone else, usually the official statistical institute, I'll have to record primary ( raw ) data myself, and the conseqüence is that I have to reserve some holidays for this ( noble ) purpose
divendres, 16 de juliol del 2010
Mehr urlaub
Caminant no aconsegueixo alliberar-me del dia a dia i aïllar-me per gaudir de l'entorn
El cert es que tot desitjant fer un punt i apart, no faig res per posar-lo, i això em deixa davant meu, tot sol, i no em queixo pas
Ara mateix escolto la remor de l'aigua, pel rierol que baixa cap a l'estany, com a únic so que m'envolta, però vaig escrivint per al blog, com si fos a casa, que hi soc
dijous, 15 de juliol del 2010
diumenge, 4 de juliol del 2010
Wait & Wait
Two weeks ago I succeded in delivering the full set of documents to be accepted by the University of Barcelona.
Although I have mentioned, only few days later they noticed that I don't have a degree in Laws. They informed that this is not a blocking issue, but the process for acceptance must be different, having to be approved by the Doctoral Comission. No problem, only a little extra delay
Although I have mentioned, only few days later they noticed that I don't have a degree in Laws. They informed that this is not a blocking issue, but the process for acceptance must be different, having to be approved by the Doctoral Comission. No problem, only a little extra delay
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