[ckan-discuss] [ODM] OpenDataRace Philadelphia

[David Read]

On 12 October 2011 19:07, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> (Cc'ing ckan-discuss list)
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> CKAN team: has there ever been discussion of a plugin or feature to
> allow users to vote on datasets? If not - is it conceivable that one
> could develop such a thing using CKAN plugin system?

We've had a 5 star-rating system for datasets previously on ckan, and
talked about +1 buttons and voting up and down, but no-one has really
pushed for it. What does it mean that a dataset is 4 stars out of 5?
The criteria are so wide-open.

However a voting contest for datasets to get released does have clear
criteria. I've not seen any examples of CKAN being used for datasets
which aren't released (although there are certainly rumblings). I
envisage the datasets to vote on being separate from a site's main
list of metadata for released data. Thus the voting system would be
separate too. In fact, this voting contest would sit happily in a CKAN
extension to slot into the UI nicely, it would operate pretty
independently of the rest of CKAN. This would make it relatively
standard Pylons work.

David

>
> J.
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Julian Tait
> <julian at futureeverything.org> wrote:
>> Not that I know off. I think being able to request data is really important.
>> Do you think something similar could be done on Manchester?
>> Julian
>>
>> Typed in transit
>> On 12 Oct 2011, at 17:36, Steven Flower <stevieflow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> You may have seen this:
>> http://www.opendataphilly.org/contest/?sort=vote_count
>>
>> "OpenDataRace is a contest to uncover Philadelphia-related data sets that
>> are not yet available to the public. Non-profit organizations across the
>> city have nominated data that would help them accomplish their missions and
>> improve our region."
>>
>> Does CKAN have a voting module ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steven
>>
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