Data FormatsExtending the form

Introduction• Warren Puckett

• Digital Director – Provokateur

• IT/Web Director – 38 Degrees

Agenda• 30 minutes to look at examples

• 30 minutes to brainstorm

Objectives• What are the available data formats?

• Looking at the possibilities

• Brainstorming

What are they?• HTML form – the usual suspect

• XML – Extensible Markup Language

• JSON – JavaScript Open Notation

What do they look like?

HTML form

What do they look like?

XML data

What do they look like?

JSON data

Uses?Drupal module• Works with

webforms• Linked to e-

Activist account• Creates Drupal

forms from campaign

• Drupal form validation

IFAW

Other examples?

Other examples?

Other examples?

Resources• http://datamob.org/• http://data.gov.uk/• RSS/XML feeds• Dapper• Yahoo Pipes• Tarpipe

Brainstorm• What applications or other online tools for

engagement have you always wanted to build? What is the use case? How could you make use of campaigns as data formats?

• What are the barriers to developing new projects for engagement that go beyond the traditional ‘page plugin’? How can they be overcome?

• Does the emergence of mobile internet access create opportunities to pull in campaigns as data formats?

Questions?

Engaging Networks

BreakoutSessions