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

Tue May 17 05:41:24 BST 2011

Hi Daniel

a BIG +1 to Keng on the Thai Data site (nice work Keng!)

Also, for info on Drupal and CKAN the people are Raised Eyebrow Web Studios

the posts are here:
http://blog.raisedeyebrow.com/2010/04/datadotgc-ca-a-drupal-case-study/
http://blog.raisedeyebrow.com/2010/06/datadotgc-ca-a-drupal-case-study-part-2/

Cheers,
dave

On 11-05-16 8:44 PM, Daniel Smith wrote:
> 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
> <ckan-discuss-request at lists.okfn.org>  wrote:
>>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>>     1. [Cross Post] Open Government Data Thailand has	launched!
>>        (Patipat Susumpow)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> 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!
>> To: CKAN Disucss<ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
>> Message-ID:<BANLkTik2Nfj9Rw745QqCUxMco200WshJAQ at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> [Cross post from Open Gov List]
>>
>> 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
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