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

Thu Jun 17 10:36:46 UTC 2010

We already have a volunteer!

FYI

James

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>> >
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>> > Jonathan Gray
>> >
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>>
>

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