[ckan-discuss] Groups on the the Datahub

Mon Feb 25 20:30:12 GMT 2013

Thanks Mark,

We look forward to seeing the CKAN 2.0 DataHub.

A also agree with Ross that there could be a potential for the DataHub.io
to be used by the academic community for aggregating data from
institutional repositories. I know the main focus is on government data,
but there are many relevant features which could be re-used for research
data.

With a more reliable image, there would be more groups making use of it.

Velichka Dimitrova
Open Economics Project Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org | http://openeconomics.net

On 23 February 2013 15:51, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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