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

Wed Jul 13 15:08:32 UTC 2011

David: this is incredibly timely! I've just been speaking with several
people about open data in Scotland. I've asked them to introduce
themselves on this list when they have time.

Do you have a URL for the new import? E.g. a tag or group?

J.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:40 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
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