[open-bibliography] New group for bibliographic data on CKAN

Mon Mar 1 22:23:24 UTC 2010

Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> CKAN has a full RESTful API and search interface that talks JSON. 

Marvellous!  I am so relieved to learn that. 
Now a question is: how happy you are with the tools you have in place for managing this sort of data?
There is a lot of data in this vein which partners in the BKN project should be glad to contribute.
I would be glad to work with okfn to find maintainers on this data.
BKN offers a standard,
 BibJSON  http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html 
intended to rigorize JSON export formats such as 
<http://ckan.net/api/search/package?groups=bibliographic&all_fields=1>
without going to a full RDF implementation which BKN partners find too heavy for immediate applications.
I would welcome contributions to the development and maintenance of BibJSON from any of the
participants in this group. Please follow up with http://groups.google.com/group/bibjson if you are interested.
Many thanks

--Jim
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>
> > Browsing around the CKAN site I see no API, no XML or JSON export, no feeds, nothing machine-readable.
>
> I was about to say haven't you seen the "API" link the main navbar
> when I double-checked about found it had disappeared! A quick check of
> the codebase revealed the link had been removed 3 weeks ago during a
> bit of routine refactoring (accidentally I suspect). Anyway it is now
> back. (BTW google is your friend here as a google for "ckan api" seems
> to work quite well!).
>
> I also note there is a command line called datapkg which communicates
> with CKAN via that REST API:
>
> <http://knowledgeforge.net/ckan/doc/datapkg/>
> <http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/23/introducing-datapkg/>
>
> > I did find the gzipped dump file http://www.ckan.net/dump/ which is updated daily.
> > I would think the above features could be obtained by taking this daily dump and updating an image of it e.g.
> > within delicious or bibsonomy which might provide further functionality, visibility  and API access.
>
> As you will see, the good news is that this isn't necessary! Apologies
> for the missing API link and let me know if there isn't anything else
> I can help with.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
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