[ckan-discuss] CKAN for humans?

Fri Apr 29 08:47:38 BST 2011

On 28 April 2011 20:32, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> 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?

I've been saying for a while we need to do that -- so yes please!
(http://trac.ckan.org)

Seb