[ckan-discuss] New dataset catalog to add

Sun Dec 4 20:41:24 GMT 2011

On 3 Dec 2011, at 02:47, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> It sounds like OpenEI is more like a dataset (albeit a large one) than
> a "data catalog". As such, it may be better to adding it to
> http://thedatahub.org/ rather than http://datacatalogs.org/

FWIW, it's already listed in the Data Hub *twice*:

http://thedatahub.org/dataset/open-energy-info-wiki
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/openei

I consolidated all info in the first of these and marked the second as a duplicate.

Best,
Richard

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rufus
> 
> On 2 December 2011 20:20, McKeel, Ryan <Ryan.McKeel at nrel.gov> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>        I am new to this CKAN list, but I wanted to offer a dataset to be
>> potentially added to the lists at datacatalogs.org.  OpenEI.org carries a
>> broad variety of energy data, both in structured wiki format (which then
>> is translated into RDF and accessible at http://en.openei.org/sparql), and
>> in datasets, some of which are also accessible via RDF.
>>        I think OpenEI would be a good candidate for a listing of international
>> data catalogs, though the United States catalog would also work to post it
>> since it carries a variety of U.S. national information also.
>> http://en.openei.org/services gives details on how to access the data,
>> though we are working on more easily accessible developer resources.
>>        OpenEI is also on the linked open data chart at linkeddata.org.
>> 
>> Thanks for your consideration!
>> 
>>  Ryan
>> 
>> 
>> Ryan McKeel ‹ Senior Web Applications Engineer ‹ National Renewable Energy
>> Laboratory, Data Analysis and Visualization Group ‹ Phone: 303-275-3819
>> 
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