[epsi-coord] ePSIplatform as a partner for DataCatalogs.org?

[Marc de Vries]

I very much support this!

Kind regards,
Marc de Vries

Op 22 jun. 2011 om 19:52 heeft Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> het volgende geschreven:

> Brilliant - thanks guys!
> 
> Marc: how do you feel about this?
> 
> J.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Tom Kronenburg <tom.kronenburg at zenc.nl> wrote:
>> i agree with Ton. Cool effort by the way!
>> Tom Kronenburg
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>> Op 22 jun 2011, om 19:38 heeft Ton Zijlstra het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> personally I think this is a useful idea. The trick of course always is to
>> be recognized as the one list to rule them all by the other stakeholders.
>> I for one, know that maintaining the list as it currently is in the
>> epsiplatform was/is a pain to maintain, and I'd rather contribute to a
>> shared list that pools many different efforts, and then in turn show that in
>> the platform.
>> So, I'm all for it.
>> best,
>> Ton
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>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I'm writing to ask whether ePSIplatform might consider being a partner
>>> for a new website called DataCatalogs.org? DataCatalogs.org aims to be
>>> *the* canonical list of open data catalogues from around the world -
>>> both from government and citizen driven sources.
>>> 
>>> We've found that lots of people have been duplicating the work of
>>> maintaing lists of catalogs and we'd like to do something about it!
>>> Hence we're trying to bring key stakeholders from around the world
>>> together to collaborate on a single list. More background information
>>> is available here [1] and a demo is available here [2].
>>> 
>>> In the first instance partnership will entail:
>>> 
>>>   i. Having the ePSIplatform logo on the about page of the website
>>>   ii. Having a designated person who has an administrative account and
>>> could help to curate the list (this can be as much or as little
>>> commitment as we'd like)
>>>  iii. Helping to promote the site as the de facto place to list data
>>> catalogues for the open data community
>>> 
>>> What do you think? I'd be grateful if you could let me know ASAP, as
>>> we are aiming to launch this project at our annual conference, OKCon
>>> 2011 (okcon.org) in Berlin on 30th June.
>>> 
>>> In any case I hope you are all well!
>>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> [1] http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/06/07/next-steps-on-datacatalogs-org/
>>> [2] http://ec2-46-51-149-132.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Gray
>>> 
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