[ckan4rdm] CKAN as a research data repository Re: ckan4rdm Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1

Thu Oct 24 11:23:23 UTC 2013

Hi

We are using CKAN for the DART project (dartportal.leeds.ac.uk). This is 
part of an open science heritage project. This allows us to do more 
interesting stuff during the project lifetime. I am presenting on this 
at a Sustaining Heritage conference next week - video of my presentation 
hre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtlJym_X44

Some of this data has been repurposed by the Archaeology Data Service 
for long-term archivation and re-use: 
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/dart_ahrc_2013/index.cfm

We created a bespoke ingest system so we could bulk-upload 1000's of 
data objects and attribute metadata easily. We have also used the 
OAI-PMH plugin so the metadta can be exposed and harvested by others 
(ADS and Europeana spring to mind). We hit a 4gb file size problem which 
we've just worked around - so should be uploading evrything else over 
the next few weeks.

Best

Ant

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> From: Birgit Plietzsch <bp10 at st-andrews.ac.uk>
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> Hello
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> We are starting on a trial of CKAN for Research Data Management and are wondering whether in addition to Bristol and Lincoln there are any other universities that are using CKAN as part of their RDM infrastructure. We'd be very much interested to find out how others are using CKAN or planning to use it. Do you just use individual components, or are you planning to implement the whole package with all of its components?
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> One of the areas that we would like to investigate is the use of CKAN as a research data repository. Are there already organisations that are implementing or planning to implement the CKAN file store and data store as part of their solution? If so, would it be possible, please, to share experiences with us?
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> Many thanks
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> From: Christian Willmes <c.willmes at uni-koeln.de>
> Subject: Re: [ckan4rdm] CKAN as research data repository
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> Hello Birgit,
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> Its not a University wide infrastructure, but we are using CKAN as a
> bakend for our data catalog in an interdisciplinary collaborative
> research centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) [0][1].
> We do not use the CKAN data store, we store the data files in an Andrew
> Filesystem instance instead.
> The data catalogue is still in an beta building phase. So we are not
> feature complete yet and still in development.
> But we have already published about our infrastructure [2] (email me If
> you can't access the article from Wiley, I can send the PDF). You can
> find all the details of our implementation, including argumention on why
> we decidet to implement an external file store, in this publication.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
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> [0] http://crc806db.uni-koeln.de/
> [1] http://www.sfb806.uni-koeln.de/
> [2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Ftgis.12060
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> Am 23.10.2013 15:53, schrieb Birgit Plietzsch:
>> Hello
>>
>> We are starting on a trial of CKAN for Research Data Management and are wondering whether in addition to Bristol and Lincoln there are any other universities that are using CKAN as part of their RDM infrastructure. We'd be very much interested to find out how others are using CKAN or planning to use it. Do you just use individual components, or are you planning to implement the whole package with all of its components?
>>
>> One of the areas that we would like to investigate is the use of CKAN as a research data repository. Are there already organisations that are implementing or planning to implement the CKAN file store and data store as part of their solution? If so, would it be possible, please, to share experiences with us?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Birgit
>>
>> --
>> Dr Birgit Plietzsch
>> Research Computing Team Leader, IT Services
>> University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL
>>
>> T: 01334 462315  |  F: 01334 462759  | E: bp10 at st-andrews.ac.uk  |  W: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/its
>>
>> Research Computing blog: http://research-computing.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
>>
>> The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No SC013532
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