[data.edu.au] Fwd: [ckan4rdm] CKAN as research data repository

Thu Oct 24 03:56:32 UTC 2013

Thanks for sharing!

On 10/24/2013 02:10 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
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> From: *Florian May* <florian.wendelin.mayer at gmail.com 
> <mailto:florian.wendelin.mayer at gmail.com>>
> Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [ckan4rdm] CKAN as research data repository
> To: CKAN for Research Data Management <ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org 
> <mailto:ckan4rdm at lists.okfn.org>>
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> we're setting up CKAN for RDM for a Marine Research and Monitoring 
> group within a state government department in Western Australia. We've 
> got additional constraints as we deal with sensitive data about 
> threatened species and communities. We'll be looking at maintaining 
> proper ISO 13139 / ANZLIC MCP metadata on a CKAN-harvested GeoNetwork 
> catalog for spatially referenced datasets, but first need to get our 
> scientists' heads around the paradigm change from spreadsheets to CKAN.
>
> The selling points of CKAN were the user community, the intuitive GUI, 
> the search performance, and the filestore/datastore plus API. With a 
> more technical end user audience we could have used a GeoNetwork / 
> GeoServer / Thredds stack, but our main data manipulation paradigm is 
> still the trusty spreadsheet, an internal Wiki for knowledge 
> management and R / Python / Latex for report automation.
>
> Our servers run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VMs with a few home-made application 
> hosting conventions beyond CKAN's default settings / ports / 
> directories. To take some of the headache out of the manual 
> installation and customization steps, we've created a fabric script 
> [0] to automate the setup (incl file store, data store and spatial 
> preview). I've also added the setup of initial orgs, groups and users 
> (datasets and resources to follow) using the API [1].
> Feel free to take our installer for a spin, and I'd highly value your 
> opinion and feedback!
>
> [0] Code repository https://bitbucket.org/dpaw/yes_you_ckan/overview
> [1] Installation instructions 
> https://bitbucket.org/dpaw/yes_you_ckan/wiki/Home
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
>
> --
> Florian Mayer
> Research Scientist Ecoinformatics
> Marine Science Program, Dept Parks & Wildlife WA
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Sebastian Rahtz 
> <sebastian.rahtz at gmail.com <mailto:sebastian.rahtz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     We're trying some experiments within IT Services at Oxford, using
>     CKAN as a vehicle for rapid prototyping. Whether we'll implement
>     it as a service in any way alongside our existing repository and
>     metadata systems is a question for 2014.
>
>     Keyword there is "rapid". Took an hour or two to get running on a
>     clean VM, and does what it says on the tin - which
>     is an attractive attitude :-} Took longer to understand the
>     Datastore than the rest of it, but thats looking nice.
>
>     Trying to see how I can put up an HTML page for my dataset which
>     uses resources within it
>     (ie images) and not seeing how to refer to resource B from
>     resource A, but I hope thats solvable.
>     I'd like to make it possible to put a front-end on a dataset using
>     such a technique, but maybe
>     I am fighting the paradigm.
>     --
>     Sebastian Rahtz
>     Director (Research) of Academic IT
>     University of Oxford IT Services
>     13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>     <tel:%2B44%201865%20283431>
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