[open-government] Software for Open Data : Drupal?

[Rufus Pollock]

On 11 September 2011 18:38, Neil McEvoy <neil at mcevoy.biz> wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> I'm setting out to design an 'Open Data Hosting' service available from
> Cloud providers, and am wondering what the ideal spec for this would be.

Have you seen CKAN, the open-source data hub and portal software:
(Disclosure: the Open Knowledge Foundation are the primary developers
and maintainers of CKAN):

<http://ckan.org/>

Rufus

> I'm wondering if quite simply an install of Drupal would be the best way
> to achieve this.
>
> Key features seem to be:
>
> - On-boarding process: Transforming raw data
> - Filter and sort: Presentations of the data
> - REST API: Programmable access
> - Community: Various features for social media collaboration around the data
> - E-Commerce: Generate revenues from data-based services
>
> What else do you think?
>
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> Neil McEvoy
> Founder
> Cloud Best Practices Network
> http://mcevoy.biz
>
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