[ckan-dev] Dev Challenge 2011

Tue Jun 7 14:48:02 UTC 2011

Hi Flavio,

That's great - thanks for chiming in!

@ All - Flavio has put forward so great ideas - would anyone be
willing to co-write the blog post with him based on this skeleton?

Thanks again,

Lucy

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Flavio Coelho <fccoelho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
>
> I am the person who started this idea of the PyDAP plug in, and since you
> mentioned it in your message, I decided to chime in.
>
> The plug in is still in its design stage, and I think it is too small a
> piece of the whole open repository scene, to warrant a discussion on the
> future of repositories from its perspective.
>
> It is true that the main feature of DAP, which is the ability to introspect
> and query from complex and large datases, is still missing from most
> platforms. I also believe that the future of open data must necessary lead
> to the possibility to navigate data sets, cherry-picking what we need, which
> is something DAP was designed for.
>
> Having said all that, If someone wants to take the lead and write some entry
> for the challenge based on those ideas, I'll be glad to help, but especially
> given the close deadline for submission, and my tight schedule, I would not
> take on this task alone.
>
> Flávio
>
> Em 07/06/2011 06:08, "Lucy Chambers" <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> escreveu:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Dev Challenge 2011 is offering prizes for people who can show the
>> 'future of repositories' (does not have to be based around Sword
>> protocol or use Microsoft technologies as I said last time - apologies
>> for my misunderstanding).
>>
>> http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2011/05/13/dev-challenge-or11/
>>
>> All it would take to enter is a blog post (Mark mentioned he thought
>> someone was working with Pydap - which could be an interesting angle)
>> and this would be a very good opportunity to publicise work on CKAN -
>> even if we don't win.
>>
>> What do you think? The deadline is 9th of June, so if anyone thinks we
>> should enter - please let me know asap!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Lucy
>>
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