[ckan-discuss] Webstore meetup - today

Thu Mar 1 10:17:12 GMT 2012

Hi all,

Last call for the online meetup on CKAN's Webstore, today at 5pm GMT.
All are welcome - to attend, sign up on the etherpad at
<http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2012-03-01>.

Previously, data indexed on CKAN was usually stored offsite (e.g. on
the publisher's own site). The Webstore allows data to be stored
directly on a CKAN instance, either as a 'blob' (the raw files), or as
structured data, in which case it gives an API, allowing the data to
be queried, visualisations to be built on top, etc. The API is used by
the 'Recline' data examination tool built into thedatahub.org, which
has recently been updated. There are exciting developments under way
in this area - if you'd like to talk or hear about them, or have
suggestions, come to the meetup!

Mark

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Mark Wainwright, CKAN Community Co-ordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/
Skype: m.wainwright