[ckan-discuss] Can someone perhaps answer this guy's StackOverflow CKAN API question?

Fri Feb 1 09:56:26 GMT 2013

Hi, 

What I do not understand in his post is the difference he see between the web application datahub.io and CKAN. Do I miss something ? CKAN is simply a python based CMS (so by definition with a web front end ) dedicated to the publishing of data (public or not/ scientific or not …. simply data). Datahub.io is simply one instance of CKAN. Is it right ?

Antoine

On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Was pleased to see on Twitter this morning that someone's written a blogpost comparing figshare with datahub.io:
> http://insights.exploreyourdata.com/2013/01/31/saving-and-sharing-your-files-for-perpetuity-figshare-or-datahubio/
> 
> The guy also has an open bounty (+100) on StackOverflow with a question about the CKAN API
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14535523/uploading-files-to-a-dataset-in-ckan-datahub-io-through-a-java-client
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> 
> As I was saying to Mark & Gavin just yesterday figshare is really dominating the space that datahub.io could be in at the moment with respect to scientific research/publication data. The blogpost points out some nice things that datahub.io does better than figshare, and things that datahub.io could improve. 
> 
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> Best,
> 
> Ross
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