[okfn-discuss] Proposal for OKCon session/discussion: technologies to support the collaborative development of data

Fri Apr 16 11:31:48 UTC 2010

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I could offer an explanation of the changeset system we're developing to
pull, merge, update, commit, push, moderate (and so on) edited changes
to CKAN packages in a collaboration of CKAN instances. It's basically
working now so a demo would be possible. The basic changeset system is
also fairly general, so it could be useful in other situations.

John

Tim Hubbard wrote:
> I'd be interested in a session on this.  I could talk about experiences 
> of versioning the human genome and the problems that causes.  Now that 
> the raw genome data is at the multi-petabyte level, we are also having 
> to do distributed and replicated storage.
> 
> Tim
> 
> At 16:09 +0200 10/4/10, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> What do people think about having a brief session/discussion with
>> Rufus, Sören, and others on (emerging) technologies to support the
>> collaborative development of data? Covering, e.g.,
>>
>>   * versioning / version control for data
>>   * synchronising between different (versioned) sources of data
>>   * requirements, examples, use cases, etc.
>>
>> Also could include things like distributed storage, etc. Think it
>> would be really interesting to have a session on the state of play
>> here!
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Gray