[ckan-discuss] ckan-discuss Digest, Vol 30, Issue 8

Wed Jul 18 13:30:35 BST 2012

Hi

Up here in Edinburgh Informatices this week they are having and open scienc
cloud week. And

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18860276

All publically funded science data to be made available. So

Metadata standards will be important for that also and the energy will be
growing.

Just a thought.

Jilly

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <ckan-discuss-request at lists.okfn.org>wrote:

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> I posted up an announce about the Data Protocols project today on
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> Rufus
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> From: Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org>
> Date: 17 July 2012 16:46
> Subject: [okfn-discuss] Announcing Data Protocols
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> Hi All,
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> We've just announced a project that the Open Knowledge Foundation has
> been working on with a group of other organisations and individuals
> for some time now.
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> In a nut-shell, it's a community-driven effort to develop simple,
> light-weight protocols and formats for distributed and collaborative
> work with data, responding to the basic challenge that the civic and
> open data community is hampered by a lack of simple standards for
> interaction between services and tools.
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> Read more about it on the OKFN blog here [1]
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> and
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> Get Data Protocols off to a flying start, and support our application
> to the Knight News Challenge by giving the proposal a quick thumbs up!
> [2]
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> All the best,
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> Sam
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> [1]
> http://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/17/data-protocols-community-based-light-weight-data-protocols-for-collaborative-distributed-work-with-data/
> [2]
> http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/25576949597/data-protocols-rough-consensus-running-code-and
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