[open-government] Help requested - mapping the world's open data catalogues

Tue Oct 25 07:47:06 UTC 2011

Hi Tim,

> Truth me told, I had no idea about the map that you showed me, or
> wider plans with CTIC. (Who is CTIC?) I certainly didn't want to
> overstep the mark.

Just to clarify this. I was (on behalf CTIC) in Edinburgh at the OFK's
Workshop to gather further requirements for CKAN. There we discussed
about the possibility of having all the repositories of catalogs (John
Erickson's, CTIC's, OKF's) listed in just one point: datacatalogs.org.
During this meeting, we offered our help as curators for the new
inventory. That map with the Open Data initiatives, managed by CTIC,
was also offered to be adapted and deployed using information from
datacatalogs.org. We agree there should be only a central point to
list/browse/visualize the catalogs.

Best regards,

Martin

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