[ckan-discuss] Starting a "Scotlands Data" group in CKAN

Wed Jul 13 16:14:37 BST 2011

On 13 July 2011 16:08, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> David: this is incredibly timely! I've just been speaking with several
> people about open data in Scotland. I've asked them to introduce
> themselves on this list when they have time.
>
> Do you have a URL for the new import? E.g. a tag or group?

http://ckan.net/tag/country-scotland

David

> J.
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:40 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Just to say I've now uploaded to thedatahub.org/ckan.net the list of
>> Scotland datasets from Peter Winstanley's spreadsheet. Details are in
>> the ticket:
>> http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1128
>> Apologies for the delay in doing this.
>>
>> Example package:
>> http://thedatahub.org/package/traffic_scotland
>>
>> These packages are now ripe for adding license information and
>> specific download links.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 5 May 2011 12:28, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Brilliant - please do the import David, this would be fantastic! :-)
>>>
>>> Could you ping this thread (including Peter in cc) if/when you get a
>>> chance to do it?
>>>
>>> Thanks very much for your help.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:00 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> On 4 May 2011 14:40, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>> This morning at the Data Catalogues meeting in Edinburgh [1] I spoke
>>>>> to Peter Winstanley (in cc) who works at the Scottish government.
>>>>>
>>>>> He showed me Scotland's Data [2], a small and relatively new
>>>>> initiative which includes a preliminary list of key Scottish datasets
>>>>> and other information assets [3].
>>>>>
>>>>> We spoke about migrating the list of datasets to CKAN in the first
>>>>> instance - probably as a group on CKAN.net. Then we could add other
>>>>> details - e.g. surveying terms of use / licensing, etc.
>>>>
>>>> It wouldn't take long to write a quick script to add these to ckan.net
>>>> in a group. Although there are only four columns of data, it's useful
>>>> in itself, and ckan is as good a place as any to flesh it out. Let me
>>>> know if you want me to do the import.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone fancy helping with this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Two options:
>>>>>
>>>>>  1. Import via the import script. There are around 50 records. Worth
>>>>> it for this number of items? (David: what do you think?)
>>>>>  2. Importing each item by hand, coordinated via a Google Doc, where
>>>>> we add links to CKAN packages as we create them. (Lucy could help with
>>>>> this if it is a desirable option?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/04/17/workshop-on-data-catalogue-interoperability-3-4th-may-edinburgh/
>>>>> [2] https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/
>>>>> [3] https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/dataandvocabularies
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
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