[okfn-help] CKAN + register of open gov data in Canada?

Thu Jan 7 19:53:03 GMT 2010

2009/12/25 David Eaves <david at eaves.ca>:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Huge apologies for taking longer than I would have liked to get this banged
> out.
>
> I've created a fairly detailed spec document here:
> http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARp4XHAbw5YsZGRoanh4ZnNfNjJmNmJkaDVjYg&hl=en

Great stuff! You've done a great job here of covering the main actors,
use cases etc

> If there is another place this group edits/reviews documents I'm happy to
> move it over to that platform...

We have a wiki page here: http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/ but I think this
fine for the present :)

> This is way more than you were interested in, but once I started I thought
> it would be wise to just get it all down on paper. I actually think this
> includes some interesting/helpful tweaks for CKAN.

Yes it does.

> Tomorrow (right now for you actually is Christmas, but may be we can chat
> between Christmas and new year at some point? Would love your (or anyone on
> the lists' reaction to this).

Sorry didn't get back to you for that time window! Can we arrange to
chat some time in the next week or so, via skype or the like?

I've added comments on your doc inline, rather than trying to interpolate here.

> Hope this is helpful - certainly is nice to have my own thoughts on this
> down somewhere.

Absolutely. As you'll see from comments I think suggestions are great
(and some are already done in fact!)

Rufus