[ckan-discuss] Setting up nl.ckan.net?

[David Read]

Ton,

(Copying these technical questions to ckan-discuss list)

Great to hear that CKAN looks to be useful in the Netherlands!
http://nl.ckan.net/ is now up, so feel free to play with it and add
data.

Regarding your questions:

1. Adding the language translation file is no problem when that is ready.

2. It is easy for CKAN to be the database behind several front-ends.
The easiest way would to have a field like 'region' with values
'Rotterdam' or 'Delft' etc. Each front-end can then specify the
particular region with an extra search term when it calls the search
API.

3. External front-ends connect to CKAN via the API - see
http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/doc/ckan/api.html
There are also details here of various helpful modules in PHP, Drupal,
Perl, Python etc.
Or many CKAN sites simply use the bundled front-end which is easily
customised through its templates.

4. If you have an RSS feed containing meta-data, it can be imported
into CKAN with a script that loads it via the API. We have various
example scripts of metadata coming from spreadsheets, CSV, XML feeds
etc. written in Python to help.

There are plenty of technical docs at http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/doc/ckan/
Any more technical questions, do ask!

David Read
CKAN technical team

On 17 June 2010 13:53, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> If there is a nl.ckan.net instance (as David already confirmed) the
> following questions emerge:
> 1) we'll need a Dutch translation (Edial Dekker is already working on that,
> so will be available soon)
> 2) Is it possible to have several websites use the same CKAN at nl.ckan.net
> instance in the background? E.g. can the city of Delft have their datasets
> listed in CKAN and only call upon those from their own data.delft.nl
> website? And the same for other groups like ICTU. (This way we'll have one
> data catalogue serving different parts of gov who don't see eye to eye right
> now)
> 3) Is how to connect a 'front-end' website to the CKAN instance covered in
> the documentation in the CKAN wiki? If not, who of you can help Martin out
> at this point to explain how to do that.
> 4) There is already a bunch of stuff around gov datasets in the IBM cloud.
> The RSS feed describing datasets, can that be fed into CKAN (not sure if I'm
> even asking the question right here, as my tech knowledge on this front is
> limited.)
> 5) With whom of you should I put Martin Borman in touch.
> Question 2 is important at the moment, as it will mean that some proposals
> to different part of gov can be limited to explaining them all is needed is
> a 'front-end' page, with CKAN doing the rest in the background.
> Looking forward to hear from you soon.
> I appreciate any help you can give us on these questions.
> best,
> Ton
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> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:40 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> James,
>>
>> No probs - I've installed your server nl.ckan.net. It just needs the
>> DNS to propagate before it'll show up.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 17 June 2010 12:33, james burke <lifesized at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > sounds good!
>> > please set it up and send me and ton login details so we can
>> > get cracking.
>> > thanks
>> > /J
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> James: no sorry, I meant do any of the CKAN developers (Rufus, David,
>> >> John, ...) have time to set this up! In first instance we can set up
>> >> and host this at nl.ckan.net...
>> >>
>> >> Jonathan
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:27 AM, james burke <lifesized at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hey Jonathan,
>> >> > i guess you mean we need a spare server which runs python? Maybe some
>> >> > of
>> >> > our
>> >> > European friends, not necessarily in NL can lend us a hand if you are
>> >> > already running CKAN. Can anyone spare us a sub-domain? No biggie if
>> >> > at
>> >> > this
>> >> > stage we start life on a box somewhere else. It's open gov. data
>> >> > afterall.
>> >> > James
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Gray
>> >> > <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm not sure how fast these instances are to deploy -- but could
>> >> >> someone perhaps help set up nl.ckan.net?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> We're going to try to get a translation done in time for a possible
>> >> >> launch in July!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> All the best,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Jonathan
>> >> >>
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