[ckan-dev] [ckan-discuss] Suggested Researchers Took: can it work on CKAN?

Thu Sep 27 08:23:22 UTC 2012

A lab note book that somehow connects to CKAN would be nice. In the past, I've wondered about a variant of Etherpad-lite, maybe with a Git backend. We ran a hack weekend, where a group developed such a tool:

http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#Team_RevisionHub

Another tool that Researchers already use as an electronic notebook is Labtrove. 

http://www.labtrove.org/

Here are some examples: http://www.ourexperiment.org/

It looks and feels a lot like a blog and despite having installed, it, I'm still wondering what it offers over something like WordPress.

Joss

On 26 Sep 2012, at 21:47, ckan-discuss-request at lists.okfn.org wrote:
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> From: Zach Beauvais <z.beauvais at gmail.com>
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> Please forgive me if this is out of the blue, or cross-purposes with the list.
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> My wife is a veterinary epidemiologist, and suggested I ask my data-head friends about a tool she would like to be able to use. What she suggested?a tool for annotation and sharing data?sounded immediately to me like it could work on top of CKAN.  
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> I've created a google doc for it here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvF4cIuvx2QpO8uUoqTCKG48h2ncYnp3k4OdX9_V69w/edit
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> The gist being:  
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> So, the Research Data Scrapbook would allow researchers to keep records of fully-searchable and shareable raw data, and to annotate the actual data with labels such as the source of the information. These labels would enable additional, ad-hoc fields of data, and become part of the metadata being stored.
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> So, my initial thoughts are that this could be something related to existing projects (though which, I can't think of?), and it could be a proposal for a hackday's work.
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> I am thinking of helping to run a vet/public-health hackday at or near the RVC in London to help my wife's epidemiological friends, and introduce them to the world of open, interesting developers.
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> So: any ideas?
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> Cheers,
> -Z
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