[ckan-discuss] CKAN for humans?

Tim McNamara paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz
Thu Apr 28 20:32:43 BST 2011


On 28 April 2011 01:19, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> > Does CKAN need to be more accessible to humans? Or is it okay that people
> > use other tools?
>
> Yes, CKAN needs to be more accessible to humans.
>
> At the same time people will look for and find data by a lot of routes
> and unless we're thinking of replacing Google I think we should accept
> that. This is similar with software: I look on 'google' or some Q&A
> site but I end up at Debian package page or google code or bitbucket
> or github (or even the author's home page).


One option is to enable CKAN to be responsive to pingbacks. I've just
noticed that http://opengovernmentdata.org/data/catalogues/ refers to many
of the resources I discussed in my initial post.

Should I add a ticket somewhere?
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