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

Thu Jun 17 11:36:21 UTC 2010

James, Arthur: Great that you guys are up for collaborating on this!

Suggest we start a thread on what you guys want the instance to be
like (e.g. appearance, feature requests, etc.) on ckan-discuss:

  http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-discuss
  http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-June/000331.html

Arthur: re: host organisation, we could start as a partnership between
OKF, and any other interested parties in the Netherlands. In Italy the
instance is a collaboration between several groups:

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/06/14/launch-of-itckannet-for-open-data-in-italy/

(If there was interest, we could also talk about setting up a Dutch
chapter of OKF, like in Germany: <http://okfn.de/>)

All the best,

Jonathan

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM, james burke <lifesized at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Interdependent Thoughts
>> Ton Zijlstra
>>
>> ton at tonzijlstra.eu
>> +31-6-34489360
>>
>> http://zylstra.org/blog
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>
>
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