[okfn-help] Public Data Catalog Priorities and Demand

Mon Dec 21 16:37:20 GMT 2009

Excellent - this looks great. I guess one of the main features I'd
really like to see in CKAN is one that Delicious currently has, which
allows you to query for, e.g. 'open data':

  http://delicious.com/tag/opendata

Then add 'statistics':

  http://delicious.com/tag/opendata+statistics

Then add 'uk':

  http://delicious.com/tag/opendata+statistics+uk

I think this is a really nice way of browsing, allowing for
serendipitous discovery (with suggestions of related tags on the right
hand side) as well as a simple URL structure.

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On 21 Dec 2009, at 10:24, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> FYI, we are currently looking at different ways of visually
>> representing the CKAN data (for data.gov.uk) - from tag clouds to
>> faceted browsing.
>
> Small aside: We have a simple faceted browser over the data.gov catalog,
> based on Simile Exhibit. It might give you a general idea of the experience
> of faceted browsing over a data catalog. It's here:
>
> http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/data.gov/
>
> Back to lurk mode...
>
> Richard
>
>
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