[ckan-discuss] Idea: Mini-site creator

Wed Sep 14 11:17:38 BST 2011

Hi Tim,

If you are serious about the static nature of the site you should know 
about a tool I've written called SiteTool which is what I use to 
statically generate everything on 3aims.com and jimmyg.org. It uses 
Dreamweaver templates and library items with a plugin architecture, runs 
of git for revisioning and supports rst etc I've been re-writing a new 
version recently and could support you in your work.

That said, I think you'd be best off following Rufus's advice and build 
on existing dynamic CKAN.

Cheers,

James

On 31/08/11 00:13, Tim McNamara wrote:
> I've received great feedback on a proposal in the emergency&  disaster
> management communities. I have had an idea that will really make
> things happen. However, I would like people's feedback on a thought
> I've had to really maximise its usefulness.
>
> The idea is to  to leverage the power of thedatahub.org to collect the
> ad hoc spreadsheets, geodata, etc that are produced during emergency
> responses. Details:
> http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/08/24/adding-structure-to-ad-hoc-data-sharing-in-emergencies/.
> The problem is that this requires people knowing specific tags of
> events. This is not really helpful to people who have not used CKAN
> before.  I've had a few requests for some micro-site would be able to
> just display data for a particular event. The best response I could
> come up with was, 'Well, people could build a site with the API'.
> However, I would like to do better.
>
> I would like people's feedback and assistance to create a static site
> generator that basis itself on tags/searches from CKAN instances. The
> application searches for particular tags, then downloads (caches) the
> data for every package. It then builds a static site with an index
> page and pages for each package. Almost exactly like CKAN, only
> topic-specific and read only. Finally, it uploads the static HTML to
> Dropbox or similar. I thought the generator could be run in the
> background and checks to see if anything has changed each minute or
> so.
>
> I think this could be very useful for people who would like to create
> micro-sites on particular areas, such as environmental data and so
> forth.
>
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