[okfn-discuss] New name for ckan.net: call for proposals

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Nov 21 12:02:14 UTC 2010


I think the use of "Data" could be misleading as people may think this is a
repository for full data sets (of cource it may be that in part and may
evolve to that). But my understanding is that CKAN is primarily for what I
would call metadata

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On 11/20/2010 01:13 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>
>>
>> We are therefore issuing a call for proposals for a new name / domain
>> name for CKAN.net!
>>
>
> "The Open Knowledge Directory".
>
>
This seems natural.

If you want something non-obvious, try:

"Pantonia"



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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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