[ckan-discuss] Groups on the the Datahub

Mon Feb 25 22:21:23 GMT 2013

Yes please with regards to a repository for the Academic community.  I
think we have a good number of researchers doing what we call 'long tail
research' which are all the small datasets that individual and postgraduate
scholars do.  In fact I would go so far as to say that I think we could
form a small group which could act as a very simple review board to keep
the spam out...?  What can I do to take this forward?  /dff

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Velichka Dimitrova <
velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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