[datacatalogs] [ckan-discuss] Non-gov catalogs in datacatalogs.org

Tue Dec 6 10:32:21 UTC 2011

On 6 December 2011 10:02, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
> Awesome,
>
> I presume Kat is the best person to change the front page?
>
> If so, @Kat - could you possibly take a look at this when you get a
> chance?: http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/1011
>
> Just trying to add a group for academic institutions but think I may have
> found a bug:
>
> Url must be purely lowercase alphanumeric (ascii) characters and these
> symbols: -_

Lucy,
Weird - I managed to create it no problem:
http://datacatalogs.org/group/academic_institutions
Maybe you got it in the wrong box?
http://datacatalogs.org/group/edit/academic_institutions
Anyway, do try it again with another name and I can delete it if necessary.

David

> I have entered: academic_institutions
>
>
> Am I doing sth wrong?
>
> Lucy
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rufus, Lucy,
>>
>> we've already have a group at datacatalogs.org for gov catalogues within
>> the EU. so yes, grouping is a good way.
>>
>> Ton
>> -------------------------------------------
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>> Ton Zijlstra
>>
>> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
>> +31-6-34489360
>>
>> http://zylstra.org/blog
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>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Strictly this is for:
>>> <http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/data-catalogs> ;-) (cc'd now)
>>>
>>> Answer: we already have non-gov catalogs (e.g. IATI registry) and so I
>>> suggest we change front page and probably introduce a tag or group for
>>> 'official government catalogs'.
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>> On 3 December 2011 16:15, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> > Hi guys,
>>> >
>>> > I've registered a couple of university open data catalogs in
>>> > datacatalogs.org to keep track of them (Oxford & Southampton) - on
>>> > front
>>> > page, it says that datacatalogs.org is for Govt stuff, but do we have
>>> > anywhere  else to keep track of e.g. academic institutions that are
>>> > opening
>>> > up their data?
>>> >
>>> > Lucy
>>> >
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