[ckan-discuss] Idea: Mini-site creator

Wed Sep 14 11:19:54 BST 2011

Hi,

Another static-website-generator https://github.com/balupton/docpad

Just my 2 cents,

Bart

-----Original Message-----
From: ckan-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:ckan-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of James Gardner
Sent: woensdag 14 september 2011 12:18
To: ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [ckan-discuss] Idea: Mini-site creator

Hi Tim,

If you are serious about the static nature of the site you should know about a tool I've written called SiteTool which is what I use to statically generate everything on 3aims.com and jimmyg.org. It uses Dreamweaver templates and library items with a plugin architecture, runs of git for revisioning and supports rst etc I've been re-writing a new version recently and could support you in your work.

That said, I think you'd be best off following Rufus's advice and build on existing dynamic CKAN.

Cheers,

James

On 31/08/11 00:13, Tim McNamara wrote:
> I've received great feedback on a proposal in the emergency&  disaster 
> management communities. I have had an idea that will really make 
> things happen. However, I would like people's feedback on a thought 
> I've had to really maximise its usefulness.
>
> The idea is to  to leverage the power of thedatahub.org to collect the 
> ad hoc spreadsheets, geodata, etc that are produced during emergency 
> responses. Details:
> http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/08/24/adding-structure-to-ad-hoc-data-sharing-in-emergencies/.
> The problem is that this requires people knowing specific tags of 
> events. This is not really helpful to people who have not used CKAN 
> before.  I've had a few requests for some micro-site would be able to 
> just display data for a particular event. The best response I could 
> come up with was, 'Well, people could build a site with the API'.
> However, I would like to do better.
>
> I would like people's feedback and assistance to create a static site 
> generator that basis itself on tags/searches from CKAN instances. The 
> application searches for particular tags, then downloads (caches) the 
> data for every package. It then builds a static site with an index 
> page and pages for each package. Almost exactly like CKAN, only 
> topic-specific and read only. Finally, it uploads the static HTML to 
> Dropbox or similar. I thought the generator could be run in the 
> background and checks to see if anything has changed each minute or 
> so.
>
> I think this could be very useful for people who would like to create 
> micro-sites on particular areas, such as environmental data and so 
> forth.
>
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