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

David Read david.read at okfn.org
Wed May 4 15:00:14 UTC 2011


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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