[EN] Checking, downloading and conversion monitoring data published on the Ministry of the Environment website

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Context

Daily (on workdays) published pdf files with data (in tables) on inflow and outflow, as well as water level for Lake Sevan, volumes of the largest reservoirs, and daily outflows for the rivers measured twice a day.

Goal

The main goal is to establish a regular retrieval of newly published monitoring data on site Ministry of Environment Monitoring of Rivers, Lakes, and Water Reservoirs and convert them into a machine-readable format.

Tasks

1. Extract data and convert it to a machine-readable format (CSV, XLSX is possible)
2. Develop a script to check data updates on the website http://www.armmonitoring.am in PDF reports and autoload updates for a new period.

Resources

• Main resource: http://www.armmonitoring.am/page/79.
• Data on water levels in Lake Sevan, volumes of major reservoirs, and daily river flows, measured twice a day, published in PDF format collected at data.opendata.am as of 12.04.2023.

Requirements

• In the original source, the monitoring data is published in Armenian. It is desirable to translate it into English.
• Publish scripts for checking updates, downloading data to PDF and converting it to machine-readable format under an free license.
• Data sets must be published in machine-readable formats (CSV, XLSX).

Prepared by

The Open Data Armenia team prepared this task.