[okfn-help] Public Data Catalog Priorities and Demand

[Rufus Pollock]

You can already do this via search: e.g. just do tags: xxx yyy but
don't have nice url structure for it as yet. How much value in having
the nicer url structure?

Rufus

2009/12/21 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> 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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