[ckan-discuss] Big push on datacatalogs.org

John Erickson olyerickson at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 01:30:20 BST 2011


The RPI team will help any way we can.

You should know that we are in the final planning stages for our
Elsevier/Tetherless World Health and Life Sciences Hackathon (27-28
June) <http://bit.ly/iigLrv> and this catalog work will be competing
for our attention ;)

John

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just written up some notes from a meeting that James Gardner
> (CKAN Project Lead), John Glover (CKAN Developer) and Kendra Levine
> (Berkely Librarian [1]) and I had earlier today:
>
>  http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/06/07/next-steps-on-datacatalogs-org/
>
> Action items:
>
>  * From 7th June – start work
>  * On 13th June – metadata standard ready (based on DCAT and existing
> lists) and start populating spreadsheet based on metadata standard
>  * On 20th June (or before if possible) – first deployment on datacatalogs.org
>  * On 27th June – final import of data from the spreadsheet
>  * On 28th June – polishing at the pre-OKCon 2011 CKAN workshop
>  * On 30th June – launch at OKCon 2011
>
> John, Martin, Richard: it would be great to get input from you guys
> about this! Will any of you have any time in the next few weeks to
> help with a big push on this? E.g. might you be able to provide
> input/feedback on Kendra's work on the metadata standard? Or help to
> do the amalgamation of existing lists of catalogues?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-June/001320.html
>
> --
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>
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>
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