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

Fri Jan 8 11:07:19 GMT 2010

Happy New Year David!

Just to add to Rufus's comments, my feeling is that the best way
forward in the immediate future is to start to enter datasets on CKAN
as part of a Canadian open government data 'group'
(http://ckan.net/group/). We can use this to test out the 'extras'
fields and to see where we are up to and how this will work in the
future. This will be the core of any Canadian open government registry
- and we will be able to migrate the 'package' data to any other
system or instance (e.g. pulling from ckan.net to another front
end/interface).

Once we've done this, then we could do a 'light' launch to get input
from various relevant parties about what else is needed, and e.g. to
add any other relevant packages.

What do you think?

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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
>

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