[datacatalogs] Tracking DataCatalogs Activity

[Ramine Tinati]

Indeed! It's a shame CKAN isn't used for more Open Government Catalogs,
alternative record harvesting is not as simple!

Thanks,
Ramine

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cyganiak [mailto:richard.cyganiak at deri.org] 
Sent: 17 October 2011 20:36
To: Ramine Tinati
Cc: data-catalogs at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [datacatalogs] Tracking DataCatalogs Activity

On 17 Oct 2011, at 20:31, Ramine Tinati wrote:
> The xml file is constructed through a small script that I wrote, which 
> utilises the CKAN API which datacatalogs.org uses to gather the 
> metadata for each of the catalogs.
> 
> The XML format, based on OAI is then fed into ROAR. The script is ran 
> at a set interval, which in turn updates the xml file, and finally 
> ROAR will refresh the record.

Interesting!

I guess it's the same script that's running here for CKAN.
http://roar.eprints.org/3885/

Best,
Richard