[ckan-discuss] Open Government Data Thailand has launched!

Tue May 17 04:44:55 BST 2011

Hi all.
I just wanted to congratulate Keng on their hosting of their Thai Data
site, and point out that I was able to use Google translate service to
get most of the jist of what most of the categories/topics they were
intending are? (Except for embedded hard text in images of course).
http://translate.google.com/#

And I am very interested in this use of Drupal with ckan, paricularly
with the added feature lately on the list of Google refine. (This is
why I was mentioning Freebase earlier, they created the
Refine, previously called gridworks:
http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/145
http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/147

Could you (Keng or anyone) give me any pointers to incorporation of
ckan with drupal? I was kind of wondering about drupal when I was
asking previously about CMS or blog engine with Ckan, though I
understand Drupal is much more than blog.
Are you also incorporating Google refine into your Thai system?

Thanks so much. So many good things happening...

Good week to all.
Dan

On 5/5/11, ckan-discuss-request at lists.okfn.org
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>    1. [Cross Post] Open Government Data Thailand has	launched!
>       (Patipat Susumpow)
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> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 19:36:42 +0700
> From: Patipat Susumpow <kengggg at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ckan-discuss] [Cross Post] Open Government Data Thailand has
> 	launched!
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> [Cross post from Open Gov List]
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> Hi All,
>
> After I came back from Open Government Data Conference in London, November
> 2010. I've worked closely with the government agency, in this case it's
> collaboration between Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand and my
> organisation Opendream, to find the possibility of pushing open government
> data repository online. And now it's launched here[1] (sadly, getting
> data.go.th is pretty complicated here :().
>
> The core technologies of the site are Drupal and CKAN and all minor
> technologies are all open sourced. We're planning to releases all modules
> we've developed soon.
>
> Unfortunately, the site is in Thai only but I can give you a rough overview
> of the site (You can guess from the URL, though):
>
>    - Data Set[2] for searching data set (We're adding more data into CKAN)
>    - Ideas[3] for ideastorming about Open Government Data
>    - Request for an Open Data[4]
>
> We try to make an Official Information Act[5] as much effective as possible
> :)
>
> This might be the first Open Government Data repository in Asia, I'd love to
> get more feedback from you guys :)
>
> Cheers,
> Keng.
>
> [1] http://data.pm.go.th
> [2] http://data.pm.go.th/dataset
> [3] http://data.pm.go.th/ideas
> [4] http://data.pm.go.th/request
> [5] http://www.oic.go.th/act/act2540eng_170853.doc