[@OKFNau] [OKFN-AU] CKAN -au User Group

Sun Oct 13 04:00:59 UTC 2013

Morning all,

Just wondering if anything came of this discussion re having a CKAN / Data
user group for Australia?

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On 19/07/2013 7:42 AM, "David F. Flanders" <david.flanders at ands.org.au>
wrote:

> This is great Alex, and I think you understand what I mean when I say how
> important it is that Aus is represented in new features - I had a bit of a
> rant to central OKFN the other day about this (I'm tired of there just
> being one pin in the OKFN chapter Australia map when there is so much more
> happening down here :)
>
> Could I ask that you draft a paragraph (very short) blog post stating the
> current state of play in Australia with regards to CKAN (I'd like to make
> sure people don't volunteer more than a half hour towards writing posts
> (with my own time redoubled to help promote the post)?  I've got several
> people I'd like to to start introducing you to so we can start to make a
> bit more noise about Open Data in Australia... we might even be able to
> expand this group out to Asia as well, Taiwan for example?
>
> I'll send a separate email re login details to the OKFN wordpress platform.
>
> Thanks again Alex.
>
> Kind Regards, Flanders
>
>
> On 19 July 2013 09:01, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would be pleased to take on this position! Hopefully I won't take on
>> any more positions after this one! I eagerly await the proposed org
>> structure to work out where best to fit, be it core group, working
>> group, ambassador etc.
>>
>> Perhaps broadening the title to CKAN and Data Platforms Working Group
>> to include things like RDA and the back-office work for getting data
>> ready for use.
>>
>> Clearly the first thing for the group to address is the metadata
>> customisation to meet Australian recordkeeping practices. A collective
>> approach to pooling resources would be good here.
>> One pie-in-the-sky goal could be to enable datasets to be categorised
>> and browsed by the function they serve, not by the portfolio of the
>> organisation that made them via
>> http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/agift.aspx
>> and/or<http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/agift.aspxand/or>COFOG.
>> An agreement on some common subset/mapping of metadata will become
>> more important as people start to desire federation including
>> potentially not just with State Government data platforms but
>> cultural/academic collections and different tiers of data sources.
>>
>> In terms of monitoring upcoming functionality and sending priorities
>> back to UK/EU, the situation seem to be improving with activity points
>> like https://trello.com/b/MkqvtXnH/ckan-roadmap-ideas-requests or
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/Ideas:-new-feature-requests-&-ideas
>> But we still need to track the state of play in Australasia (through
>> datacatalogs.org and ckan.org/instances ) and work out where best to
>> direct our resources, be it poking Europe or writing patches.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM, David F. Flanders
>> <david.flanders at ands.org.au> wrote:
>> > I've become increasingly aware of more data.state.gov moving over to
>> CKAN,
>> > perhaps we considered establishing an Australasia CKAN user/admin/dev
>> group?
>> > I've three reasons for this (off the top of my head, additional
>> argument for
>> > and/or against appreciated):
>> >
>> > a.) legal implications for Australasia will impact feature and functions
>> > that need to be developed, e.g. rather than building features in
>> isolation
>> > pulling resources to build features such as a CKAN export to RDA?
>> >
>> > b.) community based groups working with these systems and their APIs
>> will
>> > want standardisation around datasets, etc. i.e. common use of
>> schema.org
>> > metadata elements/URIs so there is a common API across all
>> data.state.gov
>> > instances?
>> >
>> > c.) As a group we can better represent our interests back to the core
>> OKFN
>> > CKAN dev team, i.e. my contacts and understanding of the UK/EU based
>> team
>> > might help cut through some of the listserv blackhole that CKAN
>> currently
>> > seems to be experiencing, i.e. a letter sent to core CKAN with several
>> > signatures requesting prioritization of a bug or a feature?
>> >
>> > Most importantly, is the question of: is anyone being interested in
>> leading
>> > this Working Group?  My personal feeling is that it should be someone
>> who is
>> > somewhat neutral,. e.g. someone not running an instance of CKAN for
>> > government.  Or perhaps someone who is associated with a CKAN but feel
>> as if
>> > they can state their bias clearly while chairing the group?
>> >
>> > BTW this goes towards the new organisational structure for OKFN that
>> Pia and
>> > I have been discussing with the CKAN core team, TBA.  In theory the
>> > structure has two sets of leaders/ambassadors.  One set to lead local
>> groups
>> > per city/state/territory (as per Govhack) and the other set to lead
>> special
>> > interest groups, e.g. data journalism (Craig/Marc), Open Census (Alex),
>> > OpenGLAM (Geoff), CKAN (???), etc.
>> >
>> > Kind Regards,
>> >
>> > Flanders
>> >
>> >
>> >
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