From mark.wainwright at okfn.org Tue Feb 14 14:58:54 2012 From: mark.wainwright at okfn.org (Mark Wainwright) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:58:54 +0000 Subject: [datadub] Fwd: The Datahub newsletter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** Welcome to new DataHub newsletter *** This is a new, very low-traffic mailing list for occasional (monthly or bi-monthly) updates of new developements on The Data Hub (thedatahub.org). You are being subscribed because you're registered as a user of the site. If you'd prefer to unsubscribe, please visit . *** Recent news *** The DataHub has continued to incorporate developments from CKAN, the software that runs it. There's been quite a lot of progress recently; if you haven't used The DataHub lately, head on over and take a look. Recent developments include: * The Datahub was upgraded to CKAN 1.5 in November and CKAN 1.5.1 last month. * CKAN's QA extension has gone live on The DataHub. (It takes advantage of background tasks which were new in CKAN 1.5.) This displays a score for each dataset according to Tim Berners' Lee's "Five Stars of Open Data", as well as keeping track of broken links. * There have been big improvements to User pages. These now show a count and list of your datasets and edits, and even a user picture if you are using Gravatar. In addition, of course, there have been many new and interesting datasets; there are currently over 3100 datasets on The Datahub. If you add or maintain a particularly interesting dataset there, perhaps you'd like to write us a blog post about it? To keep up with developments to CKAN as they happen, join the ckan-discuss mailing list or follow ckan.org/blog. Happy data publishing! Mark Wainwright -- Mark Wainwright, Community Co-ordinator, CKAN and The Datahub Open Knowledge Foundation?http://okfn.org/ Twitter: @CKANproject