[ckan-discuss] Groups on the the Datahub

Sat Feb 23 15:51:19 GMT 2013

I think the Datahub's main uses are for small groups publishing or
collating data, rather than just testing CKAN, and I think it will
continue to be useful in those ways.

We have been giving a bit of thought to the Datahub, spam, migrating
to CKAN 2.0, etc. I certainly hope we'll be able to deal with the spam
issue as part of that.

Mark

On 19/02/2013, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
> I think spam has been an issue on datahub.io for quite a while now, part of
> the
> problem with keeping it open I suppose.  As there are quite a few
> demo/test/beta sites for the upcoming v2 of CKAN, might it make sense to
> use
> datahub.io for a different purpose?  In particular I am thinking that it
> might
> make a nice place for the academic community to aggregate datasets from the
> individual institutional repositories.
>
> There currently isn't a demo CKAN install showing the benefits of CKAN for
> research data and perhaps the academic community could take over management
> of
> it and keeping it up to date?  The ckanext-datahub extension would also be
> a
> good place to centralise some of the features specific to the needs of the
> research community.
>
> Happy to help if I can, although I'm not volunteering to manage the server
> ;)
>
> Ross
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 07:53:37PM +0000, Velichka Dimitrova wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering whether there is any plan to update and clean Datahub.io
>> from all the massive spam.
>>
>> There are several projects which actually use it to store their datasets,
>> but if there are groups like "abu dhabi hotels", "african mango diet",
>> "laminate flooring online" etc. amongst many others (it seems every other
>> group is just spam) that does not inspire reliability of the Datahub as a
>> possible data repository.
>>
>> Do you intend for smaller projects to use the Datahub as a data
>> repository
>> or is this just another instance of ckan to demonstrate features?
>>
>>
>> Velichka Dimitrova
>> Open Economics Project Coordinator
>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://okfn.org | http://openeconomics.net
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