[ckan-discuss] energy and climate project

Tue Dec 20 18:15:32 GMT 2011

On 9 December 2011 13:23, Olav Anders Øvrebø <olav.ovrebo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> for a recently launched Norwegian web magazine on energy and climate issues
> (http://energiogklima.no/) I am researching a possible separate project: The
> curating of important data sets/data sources in these sectors. Informing
> about data sources is already a category in the magazine
> (http://energiogklima.no/datakilder/), but we are considering expanding this
> section. It could be developed into a very useful tool for students,
> journalists and others.

This sounds brilliant Olav!

> A few open questions to list members about how best to do this in the
> context of the international open data community:
>
> - We would like to collect these data sets on a CKAN instance (i.e
> http://no.ckan.net/). How can we avoid duplicating work that has already
> been done? Is it now possible to "pull in" data sets from other instances? I
> see that http://publicdata.eu/ has a group for environment data for example.

It is using the harvesting mechanism. If these are to be world-wide
(rather than for a specific country) it may make sense to do this on
the DataHub rather than a country specific instance though this is of
course is up to you :-)

> - Maybe there already are people doing something similar out there, since
> energy and climate is such an important sector?

There's already this group on the DataHub (which you could, perhaps,
become owner and curator of): <http://thedatahub.org/group/climatedata

> - It would of course also be great to go a step further and offer
> visualizations of data (ref. http://energy.publicdata.eu/ee/index.html). Are
> there any projects in this area that we perhaps could cooperate with?

Yes, I'm sure there are.

Rufus

> Comments and suggestions greatly appreciated - we are in an early phase with
> this.
>
> All the best,
> Olav
>
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