[ckan-discuss] Suggestion: better visibility of Ontologies

Mon Mar 15 13:27:41 GMT 2010

On 03/12/2010 06:16 PM, David Read wrote:
> I'd be in favour of getting rid of the ontology tags, now you have the
> ontology group. The group works almost exactly like a tag for cross
> referencing packages so you only really need one or the other. Of
> course groups have the advantage that they have extra metadata and
> permissions options, but I see no reason to keep a potentially
> confusing duplicate name in the tags
Ok, sounds fine. I also think it would be difficult to maintain a 
duplicated info.
So, how shall we explain that to people adding new packages ?
Is there any guide page where we could explain that if the package is an 
ontology they should inform me so that I can add it to the group ?

Christophe

> .
>
> David
>
> 2010/3/12 Christophe Guéret<cgueret at few.vu.nl>:
>    
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>>      
>>> What do you think about the possibility of having a dedicated
>>> 'ontologies' group?
>>>
>>>    http://ckan.net/group/
>>>
>>> Would this make sense?
>>>        
>> What I had in mind was more of a layout thing : on the CKAN homepage create
>> two columns, one referencing the latest packages and one for the latests
>> update on ontologies. This would have been associated with a distinctions
>> between Packages and Ontologies in the menu bar (or some other keywords).
>> But the idea of a group is fine. This gives a bit more visibility that just
>> tags I guess.
>>
>>      
>>> And might you be interested in helping to establish this?
>>>        
>> Done ! I've created a group and added all the packages tagged with
>> "ontologies".
>> I'm not quite sure on what to do with these tags now. Shall we keep as a
>> guidline that every ontology must be tagged as such and added to the group ?
>> Or shall the group replace the usage of the tag ?
>>
>>      
>>> Can you think of anyone else to invite who might be
>>> able to help maintain it? I'd love to help but - I'm afraid its not
>>> really my area. ;-)
>>>
>>>        
>> I don't have anyone in mind so any volunteer is very welcome ! :-)
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christophe
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Christophe Guéret (cgueret at few.vu.nl)
>> http://www.few.vu.nl/~cgueret/
>> Postdoc working on SOKS (http://www.few.vu.nl/soks)
>> Knowledge Representation&    Reasoning Group
>> Computational Intelligence Group
>> Department of Computer Science, AI
>> VU University Amsterdam
>>
>>
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Dr. Christophe Guéret (cgueret at few.vu.nl)
http://www.few.vu.nl/~cgueret/
Postdoc working on SOKS (http://www.few.vu.nl/soks)
Knowledge Representation&  Reasoning Group
Computational Intelligence Group
Department of Computer Science, AI
VU University Amsterdam

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