/Start-Here

Welcome to Open Source at UT Dallas

The goal of this organization is to get the UT Dallas community to work together and make awesome things

Why are most of these repos just containers for json files?

JSON is a really nice comprimise between computer/human readability. Some of these repos are just collation of data that could be utilized by a project.

How do I use these json files in my project?

There are several options:

  • fetch the file from the raw github link and parse it
  • create a REST api from the file
  • convert it into another format
  • use this data to seed your own databases

How do I create a project here?

Simply create a issue in this repo and you will be added to the team, this will allow you to create repos in the organization

I have data I would like to contribute but I don't want to put it into JSON

That's cool if you have a dataset you would like to contribute create a repo and upload a DB file, Spreadsheet or CSV and someone can use that to generate the json file for it