[ckan-discuss] CKAN - Google Refine integration

Wed Apr 27 16:33:30 BST 2011

On 27/04/11 11:01, William Waites wrote:
> What would not be difficult is to teach it about the resource type of
> voiD description and it could fetch such from the dataset authors
> where appropriate and simply incorporate that. However this raises the
> question of what is put for the dataset URI. If they don't use the
> CKAN one, then we have to play games with sameAs not only on the
> dataset URI itself but on its link targets, otherwise making the
> diagrams becomes more difficult (to say nothing about more advanced
> uses as yet unthought of). However this is where I think we need to
> go. The dataset authors know their data best and having them describe
> it is ideal. And they can do this without relying on any central
> infrastructure. These descriptions then get indexed by aggregators and
> search engines so that people can find the data that they are
> interested in.
+1
> One thing that might be helpful here is a hosted version of the voiD
> editor, that way the dataset authors can describe them, and if there
> were some sort of flexible permission scheme, others could even add
> annotations, etc., in a wiki-like style. Of course this starts
> recreating the editing functions of CKAN but with a perhaps more
> coherent data model tailored to RDF datasets.
++1

M
> Cheers,
> -w