[ckan-discuss] First post...

Wed May 4 10:21:34 BST 2011

There's: http://colorado.ckan.net/ - which appears to be down at the moment?

Also I think we've imported records from data.gov - but I'm not sure
about the status of this. Anyone have any news on this?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4 May 2011 01:37, Daniel Smith <opened.to at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> First post here. Please be gentle...
>
> Welcome to the community!
>
>> A few questions at first, please?
>>
>> 1. I am from the US, and wondered if there were any instances
>> underway or in planning from the United States?
>> (I went through the list, and at first thought the last one said Open
>> Data Alabama, but upon clearer vision, eyes not what they used to, it
>> said Albania. That was a joke.)
>
> Someone else should be able to answer this, I'm not aware of one.
>
>> 2. Is there a cms or blog engine incorporated into ckan?
>> I notice that when you go to login at the ckan site, it takes you to a
>> wordpress login.
>> Is wordpress the blog of choice of ckan?
>
> There isn't particularly a blog of choice -- that said, we use it for
> all our blogging.
>
> There is also a CKAN extension called Wordpresser which allows you to
> embed a Wordpress instance within in CKAN instance's look and feel:
>
>  http://ckan.org/2011/04/04/wordpresser-extension-released/
>
>> 3. I have been a longtime fan of data.gov.uk.
>> When I check source on their site, they make use of apache solr.
>> Is this useage of solr incorporated into ckan automatically, or their
>> own choice as addition?
>
> This is a standard CKAN extension:
>
>  https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-solr
>
>> 4. Also, on the data,gov.uk site, they use mediawiki as their wiki software.
>> This is also done via or in conjunction with ckan, or no?
>
> It's not integrated with CKAN in any way as far as I know, just
> presented alongside (but others know more about that project than me
> and may correct me).
>
> Regards,
>
> Seb
>
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