[ckan-discuss] Online meetup this week: Catalogue metadata standards, 15 Mar @ 1700 UTC

[Mark Wainwright]

This week’s CKAN online meetup will be on catalogue metadata
standards. It will be on Thursday (15 March) at 1700 GMT (5pm UK time,
6pm Central European time). Anyone is welcome to attend – details
below.

Data catalogues are springing up everywhere these days. This profusion
of available data is great, but to maximise its potential, catalogues
need to be able to share metadata – thus enabling, for example,
searching across multiple catalogues. DCAT is one emerging standard
for catalogue metadata, based on standard Linked Data classifications.
What should be in such a standard and what should CKAN be doing about
it?

If you are interested in attending, please sign up on the etherpad:

http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2012-03-15

Thanks to those who attended the very interesting meeting on CKAN's
Datastore two weeks ago. Notes from that meeting are at:

http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2012-03-01

After this week, the next meeting will be on 29 March, on groups in
CKAN and thedatahub.org. A group is a curated collection of datasets,
and there have been a number of new features and improvements for
group maintainers recently. As usual, all are welcome:

http://ckan.okfnpad.org/meetup-2012-03-29

Please let me know of any requests for subjects for future meetings!

Mark


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