[ckan-discuss] CKAN activity

[David Read]

(Blog post http://ckan.org/2011/09/30/ckan-activity-2/ )

There's lots going on in the CKAN world! Here's the news from the last
couple of weeks plus a selection of new datasets that have gone up at
theDataHub.org.

   - CKAN's language support is massively boosted, thanks to the work of
   supporters worldwide. Newly accessible in Polish, Swedish, Portuguese,
   Russian and Catalan, CKAN is now accessible in all of the top 12 languages
   spoken in Europe, although a few of those are not yet complete. Try out
   switching language at http://thedatahub.org ! To help us complete the
   translations, sign up for your language at:
   https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/ckan/resource/1-5/


   - Ira and David went to the Open Data Meetup in London and particularly
   enjoyed meeting with some public bodies looking at CKAN to help with
   publishing their open data. There is a strong feeling that CKAN being open
   source avoids getting locked-in to a big supplier's system.


   - The Czech community instance now features a tag cloud:
   http://cz.ckan.net. Ondrej requested it and it just needed David to
   switch it to use Apache Solr search - the cloud takes advantage of the nice
   faceting feature.


   - The open Government Datacamp in Warsaw is this week and Ira, James and
   David are heading there tomorrow, ready with CKAN talks and workshops. It
   seems that anyone who is anyone in data - from big cheeses to those at the
   coal face - are going to be there. Very exciting!
   http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2011/


   - The Data Preview feature has been given a boost, with auto-graphing in
   the dataset page. It's got a few rough edges still, but try it out on a CSV
   file, like this: http://thedatahub.org/dataset/gold-prices


   - The Geo-spatial CKAN features announced by Adria
   http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2011-September/001307.html have
   been causing a buzz on Twitter (#ckan). Adria followed up with an open skype
   meeting to discuss further work. Now a couple of able supporters are joining
   in, with work on the map widget and full-blown CSW serving.


   - Discussions about how to link-up data catalogues across the world.
   Should we duplicate all the records into one? What about just having a
   central search index for them all?
   http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-October/001742.html


   - datacatalogs.org has the 'groups' feature switched on and some
   interesting catalogue groupings have shown up - such as all the US data
   catalogues, official EU ones and 23 CKAN instances around the world:
   http://datacatalogs.org/group . Richard Cyganiak suggested (on
   ckan-discuss) showing the data catalogues on a map, like at
   http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/ and Adria is
   looking at the logisitics of this.


   - Webstore, our cloud structured data hosting for CKAN only launched in
   beta one month ago and now hosts over 200 datasets! These are registered in
   thedatahub.org along with all the externally hosted datasets.
   http://wiki.ckan.org/Webstore


   - The OKF Command-line CKAN tool 'datapkg' has been renamed to 'dpm' and
   version 0.9 now released. It features a single command to upload a CSV and
   associate it with a dataset. The full announcement from Rufus is imminent.


   - OpenDataRace Philadelphia was admired on the ckan-discuss mailing
   list: http://www.opendataphilly.org/contest/?sort=vote_count We're
   investigating doing a similar sort of dataset voting contest for CKAN.
   http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-October/001766.html


   - Various tabular data formats like NetCDF and JSONH discussed
   http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-October/001750.html

Sample of new datasets at thedatahub.org:

   - Belarus open data - Alexey Medvetsky has added 11 datasets:
   http://thedatahub.org/group/belarus_open_data


   - French Geo-data - Public transport, cycle paths and schools plotted in
   Gironde as KML/ESRI shape files http://thedatahub.org/tag/gironde


   - Geological data - a controlled vocabulary - Thesaurus of the Geological
   Survey of Austria - for the semantic harmonisation of geoscientific
   map-based geodata.
   http://thedatahub.org/dataset/geological-survey-of-austria-thesaurus


   - data-gov.ie via a SPARQL end-point
   http://thedatahub.org/dataset/data-gov-ie


   - Luxembourg budget data in CSV
   http://thedatahub.org/dataset/budget-lu-2012


   - Facial images for training image recognition - Tim McNamara added 4
   datasets http://thedatahub.org/tag/facial-recognition
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