[@OKFNau] Central ckan or other repository for Aus data?

Thu Dec 11 01:08:47 UTC 2014

Jumping back in here – re the 'combining from multiple sources' I think
your'e looking for more of a directory (in the 'simple' instance – see
below, probably possible with federation) or (better) you're looking at
building a service bus to connect the data sources and spit out a
combination – which I don't *think* is something CKAN can really
do...certainly doable with Python / Node / Ruby or something like that, but
I imagine would have to be custom-purposed. Federation would let you bring
in datasets from the others and have one 'site' but from what I understand
(brief read of docs...) it would just "copy" the source onto the instance,
rather than allow you to transform and spit back out as another feed – more
than happy to be proven wrong here though.

Love the idea of themed stuff – very much agree with the idea of
tagging/categorising to reduce the "look at x for y, then a for b, then j
for k" model. Would really reduce barrier to entry, particularly for those
who aren't all over this space, e.g. hackathon teams from outside the
opendata area.

Hugh

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Catherine Brady <
catherine.brady at ands.org.au> wrote:

> Steve, Keith,
> The Research Data Australia <http://researchdata.ands.org.au/> portal has
> implemented theme-based collections precisely for that reason - to bring
> together similar subject-based resources across the many, and diverse,
> metadata/data providers who contribute to Research Data Australia. We have
> started with nine themes, but plan to expand our offerings over time. See:
> https://researchdata.ands.org.au/themes.
> Catherine
>
> *Catherine Brady*
> Collection Development Librarian
> *Australian National Data Service*
> ph: +61 2 6125 0578
> em: catherine.brady at ands.org.au
> web: http://ands.org.au
>
> On 7 December 2014 at 01:37, Keith Moss <keithamoss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I love the idea of themed data portals, Steve.
>>
>> For your third point: Does the federation functionality in CKAN permit
>> anything like this? And if not, can we build it in? (Perhaps an Alex
>> question...)
>>
>> It would be nice to tie it all in with the data publishing processes
>> government are using for their official portals without the need to copy
>> data around the place.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Keith
>>
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