One of of the goals I had for OpenMissouri, when I started the project as a 2010-2011 fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, was to provide inspiration and tools to journalism and open-government groups in other locales that want to deploy data catalogs of their own.
To that end, we've made available, at no cost, the software that drives OpenMissouri.org. You can find it on GitHub, a social coding site.
The University of Missouri System Board of Curators holds the copyright on what we developed, but we're releasing the code under an open-source permissive license. That means groups with the technical chops can grab the code and use it as they wish. It also means developers can join in and enhance the software with new features or other improvements.
We built the site using Rails 3 web framework and Ruby 1.9.2 programming language. For more details about the components, see our readme file on GitHub.
In the weeks ahead, I'll talk about some of the choices we made during the development and stumbling blocks we encountered.
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