[ckan-dev] Docs status

[Anna Powell-Smith]

Hi David

Excellent quote, thanks!

Yes, I think perhaps I was confused between data and metadata too.
Shouldn't be too hard to explain.

The suggested ideas from OKCon are very useful too (copied below for
the benefit of the list).

I'll integrate these and circulate a 2nd draft.

cheers
Anna

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2 pages about CKAN
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Audience: non-techies
Comparison: Socrata, Microsoft

- Benefits, features
- Why open software?
  - avoid long-term lock-in
  - not dependent on any company
  - all customers contribute to feature set - in collaboration
- List of users / references, quotes from them
- History of product
- CKAN developers are long-term, full-time, paid (i.e. not a transient
squabbling band of hackers on the internet)
- Support options, SLAs
  - OKF working with established partners who can provide these
things, to scale as necessary
- Benefit of netweork effect, joining CKANs together
  - harvesting packages, standard CKAN API, federated search
- RDF features (although Robert isn't interested in this, others may well be)
- Storage of data option

On 4 July 2011 11:53, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> Anna,
>
> Super - looks like a good document already.
>
> People usually get confused about the distinction of data and metadata
> (and also what these terms mean), and so it might be worth being
> clearer about this in your text and diagram. CKAN is focussed on
> metadata, but has a new (beta?) extension that can store the data -
> Rufus knows more about this.
>
> I've sent you some ideas sourced last week, so hopefully these can
> expand on some of the points on the second page. I think the quantity
> of the text is about right, but maybe we can tighten up some of the
> language to include some of these points.
>
> Also, here's a good quote from OKCon which may help. Andrew Stott was
> the UK Government's Director of Transparency & Digital Engagement and
> was responsible for the launch of data.gov.uk:
> "Using Open Source was the best decision we ever made. A big thumbs up
> to the Open Knowledge Foundation and CKAN."
>
> David
>
> On 4 July 2011 10:24, Anna Powell-Smith <annapowellsmith at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just a quick update on docs.
>>
>> Currently, things are on hold, as I'm at the point of documenting
>> common CKAN admin tasks, using paster etc, in the Admin Manual. I
>> started writing questions into a Google doc, but quickly found that I
>> had so many I couldn't continue without talking to someone from CKAN!
>> So I'm planning to meet James in London on 12th May to go through
>> these. Anyone is welcome to join us.
>>
>> In the meantime:
>>
>> 1. I've written a draft two-page overview of CKAN - the glossy,
>> printed, two-page document we give to potential users. The graphic
>> design is draft, more important at this stage is the content. Comments
>> welcome: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u18fIfdJOQqk9PxUl1SnucRGR8w4axmrglCL05bM2Rg/edit?hl=en_US
>>
>> 2. I've hopefully left ckan.org in a tidy/correct state before I
>> continue work, but let me know if I should update anything.
>>
>> best wishes
>> Anna
>>
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