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

Thu May 5 11:28:13 UTC 2011

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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