[ckan-discuss] Socrata

Tue May 1 13:05:16 BST 2012

Typo correction: Socrata is NOT what I would call a "linked data
management system..." Important correction! ;)

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:04 AM, John Erickson <olyerickson at gmail.com> wrote:
> As has been mentioned, Socrata is currently in use by several open
> government portal providers (cities, states, countries) and is
> cloud-based (dataset management as a service).
>
> It has some nice ingest workflow capabilities and also some *basic*
> triplification/semantification capabilities, e.g. associating
> vocabulary terms with columns, etc, and produces the resultant RDF via
> export. It is what I would call a linked data management system, nor
> does have an associated triplestore or SPARQL endpoint.
>
> A very nice feature is that Socrata provides "sandbox" capability for
> evaluation --- try it yourself!
>
> Stakeholders should consider Socrata alongside CKAN, the Open
> Government Platform (OGPL) and proprietary solutions...
>
> John
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi Salman,
>>
>> Socrata is another data portal provider and offers functionality
>> similar to CKAN I believe. One major difference, as I currently
>> understand it, is that there solution is proprietary (not open-source)
>> and always supplied in a SaaS model (they host the solution).
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 30 April 2012 21:07, Haq, Salman <Salman.Haq at neustar.biz> wrote:
>>> Just today I came across http://www.socrata.com/
>>>
>>> It seems a few governments are using it as their open data platform.
>>>
>>> Is anybody familiar with it? What are your thoughts about it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Salman
>>>
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