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

Mon Jun 7 20:19:52 BST 2010

Worth asking for it. Backup Wordpres hosting would be useful ...

Rufus

On 7 June 2010 17:59, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are we still interested in getting space from ibib?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
>
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