[ok-scotland] [ckan-discuss] Starting a "Scotlands Data" group in CKAN

Wed Jul 13 14:40:03 UTC 2011

Just to say I've now uploaded to thedatahub.org/ckan.net the list of
Scotland datasets from Peter Winstanley's spreadsheet. Details are in
the ticket:
http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1128
Apologies for the delay in doing this.

Example package:
http://thedatahub.org/package/traffic_scotland

These packages are now ripe for adding license information and
specific download links.

David

On 5 May 2011 12:28, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Brilliant - please do the import David, this would be fantastic! :-)
>
> Could you ping this thread (including Peter in cc) if/when you get a
> chance to do it?
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:00 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 4 May 2011 14:40, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> This morning at the Data Catalogues meeting in Edinburgh [1] I spoke
>>> to Peter Winstanley (in cc) who works at the Scottish government.
>>>
>>> He showed me Scotland's Data [2], a small and relatively new
>>> initiative which includes a preliminary list of key Scottish datasets
>>> and other information assets [3].
>>>
>>> We spoke about migrating the list of datasets to CKAN in the first
>>> instance - probably as a group on CKAN.net. Then we could add other
>>> details - e.g. surveying terms of use / licensing, etc.
>>
>> It wouldn't take long to write a quick script to add these to ckan.net
>> in a group. Although there are only four columns of data, it's useful
>> in itself, and ckan is as good a place as any to flesh it out. Let me
>> know if you want me to do the import.
>>
>> David
>>
>>> Does anyone fancy helping with this?
>>>
>>> Two options:
>>>
>>>  1. Import via the import script. There are around 50 records. Worth
>>> it for this number of items? (David: what do you think?)
>>>  2. Importing each item by hand, coordinated via a Google Doc, where
>>> we add links to CKAN packages as we create them. (Lucy could help with
>>> this if it is a desirable option?)
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> [1] http://lod2.okfn.org/2011/04/17/workshop-on-data-catalogue-interoperability-3-4th-may-edinburgh/
>>> [2] https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/
>>> [3] https://sites.google.com/site/scotlandsdata/dataandvocabularies
>>>
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>>>
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