[ckan4rdm] catalogue of CKAN research data repositories

Fri Aug 8 12:46:41 UTC 2014

It’s worth pointing out that implementing a schema.org schema is only of use in a Google Custom Search, not currently in the main search index (afaict).

I’d rather there was a human curated list than relying on something so easily gamed.

Ross

On 8 Aug 2014, at 13:41, John Erickson <erickj4 at rpi.edu> wrote:

> Perhaps if CKAN repositories were to...
> 
> * Use http://schema.org/DataCatalog to expose catalog metadata...
> * Use http://schema.org/Dataset to expose dataset metadata...
> * Adopt appropriate values in the metadata elements, to accurately
> identify the data as research data, from particular domains...
> 
> ...then a stand-alone "catalogue" or "good list" of research data
> repositories would not be required; rather, "Big Search" (The Google
> et.al.) could be used to locate research data with good fidelity.
> Alternatively (or in addition), crawlers could be used to extract and
> aggregate such metadata to automagically create such a "good list..."
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Heinrich Widmann <widmann at dkrz.de> wrote:
>> Hi Vasily,
>> Good wuestion, I only know the official list of CKAN portals at
>> http://ckan.org/instances/#
>> but of course a list 'limited to research data repos' would be helpful.
>> Actually I started to list some interesting CKAN portals at the bottom of
>> the communities table in the EUDAT wiki.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Heinrich
>> 
>> Am 08/08/2014 12:05, schrieb vasily.bunakov at stfc.ac.uk:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Please is there any catalogue or a good list of research data repositories
>>> based on CKAN? There was a nice compilation made by St Andrews some time ago
>>> http://research-computing.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2013/11/27/using-ckan-for-research-data-management/
>>> but it had its own scope (technology evaluation), the list of CKAN research
>>> implementers in the UK might have expanded since then, also there may be
>>> success stories beyond the UK.
>>> 
>>> With kind regards,
>>> Vasily Bunakov
>>> STFC Scientific Computing
>> 
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