[ckan-discuss] CKAN activity
David Read
david.read at okfn.org
Fri Sep 30 16:53:52 BST 2011
Here's a taste of what's been going on this week with CKAN:
- The CKAN development team made a splash at PyCon UK in Coventry, giving
a talk, meeting other Python developers and doing a CKAN code sprint
focussing on a couple of cool features mentioned below.
- Following a community conference call last week on how to improve the
Debian packaging of CKAN, James has been improving BuildKit and is set to
announce a new debian package for the latest CKAN (1.3.4.1) in the next few
days. Instead of having dedicated packages for each server name, we will
have one package that all users can use and a parameterised script to set up
the server. Announcement v. soon.
- Adria has added a 'spatial' field to datasets, for details of *where* a
dataset applies. The decision has been made to store the value as a
latitude/longitude polygon in GeoJSON format. The code is in
ckanext-spatial <https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-spatial>, it links up
with INSPIRE, docs are imminent and we would like to get this on
thedatahub.org soon to try out. So far spatial search is only available
through the API, but we will add it to the web front-end, as well as display
a map showing extent on each dataset page and lots of other cool features
based on this.
<http://ckan.org/files/2011/09/dataset-map-demo.png>
- Berlin Open Data - launched with CKAN under the hood. It provides a
catalogue of 23 datasets so far, with an open license (CC-BY) for official
data. Press releases:
Fraunhofer<http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus/_fokusnews/_news_2011/_2011_09_09_OpenDataPortal.html>
EPSI <http://www.epsiplus.net/news/news/berlin_launches_data_portal>.
- A Belgian CKAN was requested by freelance journalist Mehmet Koksal who
has opened up election spending data. Friedrich setup http://be.ckan.net the
same day (!) and datasets are starting to be registered there already. (This
is in addition to the official Belgian site being developed with Drupal &
CKAN by Bart Hanssens.)
- Antoine Logean needed only 10 minutes to set up a new CKAN install on
Amazon EC2 using our instructions: http://make.opendata.ch It's for an
upcoming Swiss hack day and he's already planning a groovy visualisation
using the CKAN API.
Message<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2011-September/001290.html>
- datacatalogs.org now lists 140 government data sites around the world.
It was launched in the summer by the OKF following a meeting of open data
experts in Edinburgh. The site runs on CKAN and Jonathan is pushing to
expose more features now, enabling the editors to group sites by continent
and to record links to bulk downloads, and John is looking at implementing
this. Message<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-September/001704.html>
- Jilly has been talking to potential CKAN partners to support CKAN
installations. Any more like-minded consultancies around the world are
welcome to join in spreading the message. Contact: jilly.mathews at okfn.org
- We're interested to see software guru Ward Cunningham's work in
publishing open data: http://wardcunningham.github.com/ (flagged up by
Friedrich)
- Interest is building for OGD Camp 2011 in Warsaw
<http://ogdcamp.org/> during
October with the LOD2 group announcing the Linked Government Data
workshop<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-dev/2011-September/001294.html>.
There
will also a CKAN workshop there too, run by David. Come along - it is
certainly going to be the biggest event for Government data ever!
David
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