[okfn-help] Fwd: [ibiblio.org #46881] becoming an ibilio contributor

Mon Jun 7 17:59:13 BST 2010

Are we still interested in getting space from ibib?

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From: Cristobal Palmer via RT <help-comment at metalab.unc.edu>
Date: 7 June 2010 03:12
Subject: [ibiblio.org #46881] becoming an ibilio contributor
To: casbon at gmail.com
Cc: braswell at ibiblio.org, chuck at ibiblio.org, ethan_kromhout at unc.edu,
garnett at ibiblio.org, hebrank at ibiblio.org, john at ibiblio.org,
pjones at ibiblio.org, wjcorbet at email.unc.edu

James,

I'd like to apologize for the delay in replying to your last comment.
Ken left us for another position, and I failed to follow up on this
ticket, which is one of many I took from him after he left.

Did you find hosting in the intervening time, or are you still
looking? If you're still looking, please let me know and I'll review
this ticket in more detail. If you've resolved this, please let me
know and I'll close this ticket.

-CMP

On Tue Oct 06 13:55:50 2009, casbon at gmail.com wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Ken Chestnutt via RT <help-comment at ibiblio.org>:
> > I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be frustrating, but I don't know what
>    you mean by the term "open data".  Do you mean things you find that
>    are under some sort of CC license?  Do you mean open source
>    software projects?
>
> Ken, don't worry it's not frustrating.
>
> Open data is data that has been licensed specifically with an open
> license.  This is definitely not software, and normally not content
> (as would be licensed by CC).  The definition of openness can be found
> here: http://opendefinition.org/1.0/ (See also:
> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/ )
>
> With CKAN we are looking at registering 'knowledge' which is typically
> databases, but also public documents and other information.
>
> >
> > My biggest fear is that ckan will become a vary large, unwieldy,
>    repository of "stuff" that is duplicated elsewhere.  While I will
>    agree, to a point, it's nice to have everything in one place, I'm
>    not sure we have the disk space for it.
> >
> > Do you have any guidelines around what you collect?  Perhaps it will
>    help if you tell me how you will collect it.
>
> Usually we only point to a package to download.  We only want space to
> store a copy if the package cannot be pointed to online somewhere and
> it is definitely open data.
>
> You are right that a lot of things will be pointed to, but this takes
> very little space.   We are actively encouraging people to register
> data as this is the point of the registry, but this will not take a
> lot of space.
>
> We would be happy to start with less space (1GB) if this makes it
> easier for you.
>
> Kind regards,
> James