[ckan-discuss] CKAN Participation

[Pablo Mendes]

John,
Thanks for the message.


>  I demonstrated the prototype of the IOGDC at the Edinburgh meeting


 I did not know that you guys were already in contact. Great!

We would hope that the many government dataset catalogs that we had to
> "scrape" to create IOGDC would be motivated to publish Linked Data versions
> of their catalogs using DCAT!


I hear you. We put quite some effort into metadata collection recently [1],
and we also wish that people would publish their metadata in a way that's
easy for us to just collect. However, as people incrementally move towards
this direction, we had to do some of that work ourselves, and we stored
everything on TheDataHub.org in order to maximize the impact of this
effort.

Along the same lines, I think it would have great impact for the community
if your data was also accessible from this single point of entry. Are you
planning anything in this direction?

Cheers,
Pablo

[1] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/state/



On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:35 PM, John Erickson <olyerickson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Yes, I demonstrated the prototype of the IOGDC at the Edinburgh
> meeting; you saw the more polished version (with more datasets). We
> are happy to find a way to work with CKAN and TheDataHub.org, but we
> just haven't had the opportunity...yet.
>
> Please keep in mind that one of the main goals of our IOGDC work is to
> demonstrate the value of a standard dataset catalog vocabulary, esp.
> DCAT (which ours is very similar to). We would hope that the many
> government dataset catalogs that we had to "scrape" to create IOGDC
> would be motivated to publish Linked Data versions of their catalogs
> using DCAT!
>
> Thanks for the interest!
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Folks,
> > I attended this week a talk given by Eric Rozell on the "TWC
> International
> > Open Government Dataset Catalog" at I-SEMANTICS 2011. They have "more
> than
> > 70 government dataset catalogs from around the world ...  faceted
> browsing
> > and a search interface". http://tw.rpi.edu/web/doc/iogdc_tc2011
> > I suggested to Eric the integration of their catalog into TheDataHub.org,
> > and the group seems to be open to discussing options. What would you guys
> > advise as the best way to go? Offering a bulk download in some format?
> Using
> > the CKAN REST API? Installing CKAN on their side? Just merging everything
> in
> > the level of semantic.ckan.net?
> > Also, Eric et al. could consider plugging their interface on top of
> > semantic.ckan.net?
> > Cheers,
> > Pablo
> >
> >
> >
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