[ckan-discuss] Getting started with CKAN Norway (no.ckan.net)

[David Read]

Translations:

It sounds like it is well worth capturing the learning about
translations on a wiki page as we go along. We can link to the basic
info about .po files in the pylons docs, but it would be great to have
the titbits of info about 'fuzzy' etc.Then we don't need to rely on
Jogi as much for every new language that wants to get involved.
http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan

Importing data:

We currently import CSV files into ckan using getdata scripts. For example:
https://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/hg/file/tip/ckan/getdata/data4nr.py

I've added some docs to explain it here:
https://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/hg/file/tip/doc/getdata.rst
(this will get added to the web docs in due course)

We're also working on a web UI to a spreadsheet importer, but the
disadvantage of that is that you have arrange the spreadsheet exactly
as it will appear in the db - no facility for renaming columns or
munging the data in them, e.g. add a date of import or to extract tags
from other fields.

David

On 23 February 2010 22:54, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could do the translation into Finnish... maybe it inspires others here to
> chack the CKAN allthough we are mostly looking forward to integrate opengov
> frontend with CKAN backend.
>
> -Jogi
>
> Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Hi Olav,
>>
>> Great to meet you today, and good to hear that you're interested in
>> contributing to a Norwegian instance of CKAN! I've added you to our
>> 'ckan-discuss' list to talk about how to take this forward.
>>
>> The first step is translating the CKAN file.
>>
>> Daniel, Benoit: perhaps we could collaborate on putting together a
>> brief page on the OKF wiki explaining how to do this? (I'll be around
>> on IRC tomorrow...)
>>
>> Then we can get no.ckan.net up and running and import your metadata.
>>
>> Rufus, David, John: Olav and others have put together a spreadsheet of
>> Norwegian open data, currently with 139 items [1]. Any ideas on next
>> steps in terms of importing this to CKAN? More background info at [2].
>>
>> [1]
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsEFV_gbhE48dDJOdF94VkdWMGpLS1RNbTBjV2FvZlE&hl=en
>> [2]
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/18/open-government-data-in-norway-mounting-interest-but-no-breakthrough-yet/
>>
>
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