[okfn-discuss] Major upgrade of ckan.net

[Jo Walsh]

dear Rufus, all,

> We've just done a major upgrade of http://www.ckan.net/ to the latest
> version of the ckan code! We attempt to test thoroughly before
> deploying to the production site but bugs can always creep in, so if
> you discover a glitch please do let us know.

Wonderful news! Heard in a conf call from Jonny today that the running
code at ckan.net was some way out of sync with the latest development
version. Am really pleased to hear that things have been integrated.

Been speculating about how to introduce an easily-usable location
element into CKAN. Notes are here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_in_CKAN

Contemplating a plugin to make the value in a key-value pair poll a
gazetteer search service and suggest links to places, allowing
multiple links per CKAN package. The largest and smallest places in
the list would imply a scope for spatial search and relations to other
data sets with a similar scope.

Jonny also mentioned an internationalisation effort, with German and
Canadian instances of CKAN in the offing - that would also be really
great.

best,


jo
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