[ckan-discuss] ANN: Semantic CKAN - Revisited

Sun Apr 17 15:21:31 BST 2011

A new version of RDF infrastructure for CKAN has now been deployed at

        http://semantic.ckan.net/

this represents a complete reimplementation and re-thinking of how to
manage a distributed set of metadata catalogues.

Features:

    * Aggregation of all known CKAN instances (if there are any
      missing, please let me know and I'll add them)
    * Search and filtering across all data sources
    * Dataset metadata represented using DCat and, if available, voiD
    * Retrieval of RDF representations using content-type negotiation.
    * Where voiD information is known, navigable visualisations of
      the datasets and their neighbours, likewise for curated groups.
    * CKAN-compatible API for using existing CKAN tools to inspect the
      aggregated data from one place

Some interesting pages to look at:

  DBpedia
    http://semantic.ckan.net/record/dcc6715c-bf94-4a89-bbf3-35933da795a5.html
  Linked Library Data
    http://semantic.ckan.net/group/?group=http://ckan.net/group/lld

-- 
William Waites                <mailto:ww at styx.org>
http://river.styx.org/ww/        <sip:ww at styx.org>
F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB  3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45