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

Thu Dec 11 02:52:29 UTC 2014

+1 for bolting search based curation on to GovPond. Is it on Github? ;)

I downloaded the GovPond JSON and it looks like what you need to store
metadata in a common way; CKAN scented JSON but references back to
original portals as first class elements.
There's these data sources like OSM/Strava outside of the government
open data portals that you would want to highlight in the context of a
particular theme that would need to be "tipped in" for that theme.

I would note with the data.gov.au Metadata Mapping
https://data.gov.au/dataset/data-gov-au-metadata-and-other-schemas and
other common metadata standards around, there's plenty of tagging of
temporal/spatial coverage in various .au data portals (so 19th Century
theme or Sydney theme possible)

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Keith Moss <keithamoss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, Catherine. I do rather like the approach ANDS has taken
> with also having sub-categories (Featured, National, International) within
> each theme.
>
> As as a matter of interest - what platform is Research Data Australia
> running on?
>
> @Steve
> Your idea around tying it into GovPond got me thinking. Maybe the "smart
> search rules" part could just be using the existing tags applied to data to
> semi-automatically generate themes like bicycle.govpond.org?
>
> So throw in a step at the start...
>
> 0. Some manual work on our end saying that tag1, tag2, ..., tagN are all
> part of a given theme.
>
> :)
>
> On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 8:19:26 AM Catherine Brady
> <catherine.brady at ands.org.au> wrote:
>>
>> Steve, Keith,
>> The Research Data Australia 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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