[ckan4rdm] using CKAN as research data repository

Florian May florian.wendelin.mayer at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 04:03:16 UTC 2015


Marta, Ben,

this is highly interesting! I'm using CKAN to archive all the research
datasets without a proper home (dedicated data warehouse).

+1 on embargoing! We run one instance with all datasets set to "public"
inside our well-protected intranet, and one completely separate (because I
feared accidental leaks) instance facing outside. As we work with sensitive
data about threatened species, our data release process is painfully manual
and goes across several desks, so there's no automation yet. It would be
great to have some sort of auditable data release sign-off, possibly
triggering a push to the external site.

Great to hear about ckanext-doi! I'll have to have a chat with the
Australian National Data Service, who offered to mint DOIs for us, whether
that offer would extent to a modified ckanext-doi.

Ben, FYI our colleagues at the WA Museum have just adopted CollectiveAccess
for their collection data management:
http://www.gaiaresources.com.au/collectiveaccess-powerful-flexible-collection-management/


Cheers,
Florian

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Ben Scott <ben at benscott.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Maria -
>
> We’re using CKAN as a repository for our research and collections data
> here at the Natural History Museum, London -http://data.nhm.ac.uk/.
>
> 1) Embargoing datasets - this is on our roadmap and a high priority so we
> should be writing an extension for this soon.
>
> 2) Batch upload - we’ve built data import pipelines using Spotify’s Luigi
> framework (https://github.com/spotify/luigi) and the CKAN api. It’s very
> specialised for our collections database though, and not implemented as an
> extension - but it might be useful (
> https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ke2mongo).
>
> 3) We’ve written an extension for assigning DataCite DOIs -
> https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-doi (You will need a
> contract with DataCite / their national representative to be able to mint
> DOIs).
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> -----------------------------------
> Data Portal Lead Architect
> Biodiversity Informatics,
> Natural History Museum,
> London
> +44 (0) 207 942 4277
>
> On 15 Jan 2015, at 13:57, Marta Hoffman-Sommer <
> m.hoffman-sommer at icm.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > We're planning an open research data repository which will serve the
> whole scientific community in Poland and we're seriously considering to use
> CKAN for this purpose. I was wondering if some of you have already
> implemented CKAN as a stand-alone repository (not part of a data management
> system)? Is anybody aware of CKAN extensions that would enable (1)
> embargoing dataset release, (2) batch upload and edition of multiple files,
> or (3) DOI assignment and display? We have been unsuccessfully searching
> for these on the web.
> >
> > Best,
> > Marta
> >
> > --
> > Marta Hoffman-Sommer
> > Open Science Platform
> > ICM University of Warsaw
> > http://pon.edu.pl
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > ckan4rdm mailing list
> > ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org
> > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan4rdm
>
> _______________________________________________
> ckan4rdm mailing list
> ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan4rdm
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan4rdm/attachments/20150116/a14dfc71/attachment-0003.html>


More information about the ckan4rdm mailing list