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

Wed Oct 16 23:09:49 UTC 2013

Yes, I have gotten around to setting up a CKAN Australia User Group (users
of data from CKAN or elsewhere are definitely on topic too!)
http://au.okfn.org/2013/10/16/data-down-under-and-the-ckan-users-group/

There is a additional mailing list for those interested in asking questions
or staying up to date with developments about CKAN and Data
Applications/Platforms  http://lists.ckanau.org/mailman/listinfo/ckanau
You can also write to me to be added to the GitHub organisation where we
can make some great tools/CKAN extensions
https://github.com/organizations/ckanau :)

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Keith Moss <keithamoss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> Just wondering if anything came of this discussion re having a CKAN / Data
> user group for Australia?
>
> Sent from my Dishwasher
> 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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>>> > twitter: http://twitter.com/dfflanders
>>> > skype: david.flanders
>>> > mobile: 0407 821 686
>>> >
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>>
>>
>>
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