[ckan-discuss] [okfn-labs] Ideas for data mashups and improved visualisation for CKAN

Wed Jul 24 13:24:36 BST 2013

Julius, thanks, this is very helpful.

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Gavin Chait
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The Open Knowledge Foundation
Empowering through Open Knowledge
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From: Julius Chrobak [mailto:julius at mingle.io] 
Sent: 24 July 2013 13:11
To: gavin.chait at okfn.org
Cc: okfn-labs at lists.okfn.org; ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [okfn-labs] Ideas for data mashups and improved visualisation
for CKAN

Hi Gavin,

are you looking to improve the front-end side only, or are you considering
changing the back-end as well? 

I'm asking, because we are working a on open source tool,
called comp (https://github.com/ostap/comp), for querying information from
files. The main goal is to provide unified interface to variety of data
representations found in public datasets. It can be used to query tabular or
hierarchical data structures using a single concept - list comprehensions.
It accepts queries through HTTP and returns the data in JSON format.

The tool is used to power our own query service for open data available on
https://mingle.io.

Cheers,
Julius Chrobak
co-founder of mingle.io - Query API for Open Data
@julochrobak
t.: +41 44 830 00 33

On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Gavin Chait wrote:

Hi all,

We would like to massively improve the data explorer and visualisation
functionality on CKAN and are looking at open-source libraries and toolkits
we may be able to use.

Our brief is as follows:  

Search and select data from CKAN, overlay datasets the data to create
mashups, and present these in an engaging and easy-to-use embeddable visual
format.  Data would also include geospatial. Data could include transport,
air quality, energy usage / resource efficiency, and licensing of premises /
planning. 

There have been some cool new initiatives from infogr.am, Dataseed and
Datawrapper.de. There are also some great geospatial visualisation
libraries, like Kartograph.

Our interest is in open source solutions to look at:

1. Managing diverse data alignment for the mashup;
2. Outputting that data to an embeddable visualisation.

We can build on Recline and improve it, or we can work with another existing
library that offers us greater flexibility.  We don't want to start from
scratch, though.

We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions as we look to the next
generation of CKAN data explorer.

Thanks and appreciated

Gavin

Gavin Chait
Head of Services | skype: whythawk | M:  +44 (0) 78 9495 7090 | @GavinChait
The Open Knowledge Foundation
Empowering through Open Knowledge
http://okfn.org/

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