The image referenced and attached above is the first step in applying organization to the winning proposals from Project Catalyst with the goal of making it easier for everyone to see and discover exactly what Project Catalyst is funding and, if it is a proposal that has an impact in the real world, where it is funding it.
To create this image we went through all the funded proposals from Fund 6, read them and drew from them an intuitive tagging system that allows users to explore proposals by their scope, their purpose, their geography, and more! This image organizes the proposals by their primary tag, with the secondary tags being shown beneath the proposal's title. Each project can get as many tags as necessary to describe it.
We propose to take this data and to integrate it into a search function that will provide users with the ability to explore and discover Project Catalyst funded proposals. Budgeted into this proposal is:
Taking the data from both Funds 7 and 8, going through that data and implementing this tagging system. Creating visualizations, like you see above, for these Funding rounds.
Adding the data for these funds to the search function along with what has already been done for Fund 6.
Everyone will be able to explore the 3 most recent Funding rounds of Project Catalyst. When exploring, users will see the problem statement, the proposed solution, along with the proposal name and tags it has been given. By clicking the “Explore” button users will be directed to the proposal’s page in IdeaScale. Head over to <https://builtoncardano.com/> to see how the UI and tagging system will function. Users will also be able to narrow down their search to a particular funding round.
Users will be able to view, download, and share the data visualizations created from this data. There are many uses for this but one that we foresee is using these images to easily show others what Project Catalyst can accomplish and how diverse an array of projects it funds. People will also be able to direct users to the search function so that they can explore the funded proposals.
In addition to this we will also develop and open source an API that allows anyone to pull the Project Catalyst data that we use, along with the tags that we have given to each proposal.
SUMMARY OF DELIVERABLES
The ecosystem style images, of funded Project Catalyst proposals, that you see here
Reading through all the funded proposals for both Fund 7 and Fund 8 and creating a tagging system that allows users to explore and discover funded proposals
A independent search function on the builtoncardano.com website that is focused only on Project Catalyst winning proposals, and contains the data from Funds 6, 7, and 8
An open sourced API of the Catalyst data we have along with the tags we give to each proposal
The qualifications for this challenge are to be about Cardano and to not to fit into any of the other challenges. There are no other challenges that our proposal perfectly aligns with.
We are here to help encourage the growth of Cardano and to foster discovery, exploration, and growth in Cardano ecosystem.
Not receiving the required data is the main challenge that we see in preventing us delivering this project on-time. We have, however, received this data for Fund 6 before and those providing it to us are the ones giving us the funding; we highly doubt that there will be a problem with obtaining this data. If there is then this data will need to be scraped from the Results PDFs which will add many more hours to the tasks and will push our efforts back by approximately 1 week.