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

[Tim Hodson]

Maybe what you really want is one of these?
http://beta.kasabi.com

Tim

On 12 Sep 2011, at 09:31, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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?
>> 
>> --
>> Neil McEvoy
>> Founder
>> Cloud Best Practices Network
>> http://mcevoy.biz
>> 
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