[euopendata] Getting started with CKAN in the Netherlands -- nl.ckan.net?

Thu Jun 17 10:32:31 UTC 2010

hi all,

I will also be in contact with Martin Borman in NL (who because of a
question to me yday sparked the conversation in this list in the first
place.) He, like me, has been in touch with the Dutch national ICT office
(ICTU) about creating a data cat. It seems he, like me, wants to move
forward regardless of what gov does at this point (which is slow going as we
are without a cabinet at the mo). So I will talk to him today to see what
he's thinking about doing and propose the nl.ckan.net instance.

There's also an inventory of national level datasets in NL due in July,
which is a good starting point for a CKAN instance. Also there is of course
the material me, you and others are already aware of that is out there,
which will be easy to list.

Creating a Dutch translation would be great as a step regardless.
Will get back to you guys after I spoke to Martin as well.

best,
Ton
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Rinke Hoekstra <hoekstra at uva.nl> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I'd be happy to help out, but am excruciatingly busy at the moment (at
> least until the end of the month). I understand James is able to arrange
> something?
>
> Cheers,
> Rinke
>
> On 17 jun 2010, at 11:18, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
> > Dear Rinke, Christophe, Arthur,
> >
> > I was just talking to Ton Zijlstra about the possibility of setting up
> > a Dutch instance of CKAN, the open source data registry software used
> > in data.gov.uk -- in the first instance at nl.ckan.net.
> >
> > I wonder whether any of you know anyone who might be willing to help
> > with the translation? I understand that this takes around 2 to 4
> > hours.
> >
> > Apparently in July a study will be published giving details of open
> > (and not so open) datasets from the Dutch government. If we can get a
> > hold of the material underlying this study in e.g. spreadsheets format
> > (which Ton thinks we might be able to) and under an open license, then
> > we can load this into the registry to get it started!
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Gray
> >
> > Community Coordinator
> > The Open Knowledge Foundation
> > http://blog.okfn.org
> >
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> > http://identi.ca/jwyg
>
>
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