[ckan-discuss] Groups on the the Datahub

Tue Feb 19 20:54:32 GMT 2013

I think spam has been an issue on datahub.io for quite a while now, part of the
problem with keeping it open I suppose.  As there are quite a few
demo/test/beta sites for the upcoming v2 of CKAN, might it make sense to use
datahub.io for a different purpose?  In particular I am thinking that it might
make a nice place for the academic community to aggregate datasets from the
individual institutional repositories. 

There currently isn't a demo CKAN install showing the benefits of CKAN for
research data and perhaps the academic community could take over management of
it and keeping it up to date?  The ckanext-datahub extension would also be a
good place to centralise some of the features specific to the needs of the
research community.

Happy to help if I can, although I'm not volunteering to manage the server ;)

Ross

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 07:53:37PM +0000, Velichka Dimitrova wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering whether there is any plan to update and clean Datahub.io
> from all the massive spam.
> 
> There are several projects which actually use it to store their datasets,
> but if there are groups like "abu dhabi hotels", "african mango diet",
> "laminate flooring online" etc. amongst many others (it seems every other
> group is just spam) that does not inspire reliability of the Datahub as a
> possible data repository.
> 
> Do you intend for smaller projects to use the Datahub as a data repository
> or is this just another instance of ckan to demonstrate features?
> 
> 
> Velichka Dimitrova
> Open Economics Project Coordinator
> Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://okfn.org | http://openeconomics.net
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