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

Wed Feb 24 12:58:46 GMT 2010

Dear Jonathan,

On 24.02.2010, at 13:41, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:54 AM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>> It sounds like it is well worth capturing the learning about
>> translations on a wiki page as we go along.
> 
> Daniel, David and I started a page for this at:
> 
>  http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/i18n
> 
> Any additional information from those who have been involved in
> translation would be *very* much appreciated to help make the process
> easy and clear for others!
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Would also be great to start a page on the wiki for this, outlining
> options. E.g.
> 
>  http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/import
> What do you think?

Yes, that is definitely a good idea. And one for customizing / building custom front ends for CKAN, like:

http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/customize 
or 
http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/frontend

What do you think?

Best
Daniel