[open-science] Evaluation of open data portals in the academic space

Fri May 16 07:03:06 UTC 2014

Are you sure?

RDF, metadata and allowing the machines to index and find is key to data discovery and so much data/open-science.
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From: Chris Taylor [chrisftaylor at gmail.com]
Sent: 16 May 2014 07:45
To: Andy Turner; Adi Eyal; Peter Murray-Rust
Cc: open-science
Subject: Re: [open-science] Evaluation of open data portals in the      academic        space

The thing that never scales is human-based curation...

C.

On 16 May 2014 01:35:02 GMT+01:00, Andy Turner <A.G.D.Turner at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>A large part of what is on the web is deep and behind portal interfaces
>and in back end databases. I think that a key requirement for an Open
>Science Portal is to be able to surface things from within the portal
>and make these available publicly. You probably also want to have some
>data that you want to restrict access to. A fine grained/role based
>access control to content can be very useful. It is a few years since I
>worked with portals, but two that might be worth a look at are Sakai
>and LifeRay. I'm not sure what else is available and how it all
>compares, but I'm interested to learn. The AURIN portal first beta is
>being evaluated. I found it quite impressive, but I don't know if it is
>open source or what it is based on.
>https://docs.aurin.org.au/
>https://portal.aurin.org.au
>https://apps.aurin.org.au/
>
>HTH
>
>Andy
>
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>From: open-science [open-science-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
>Adi Eyal [adi at code4sa.org]
>Sent: 15 May 2014 15:49
>To: Peter Murray-Rust
>Cc: open-science
>Subject: Re: [open-science] Evaluation of open data portals in the
>academic     space
>
>> Why do you want a portal? They often hide what lies behind. I want to
>be
>> able to touch all the data.
>>
>
>I guess it depends on what you mean by a portal. I am evaluating a
>small research site (http://www.chet.org.za/data). They publish all
>their data under a CC licence and have plans to include all of their
>research online. I would like to evaluate whether they are a doing a
>good enough job in order to start scaling or whether there are any
>tweaks that they should be considering.
>
>Adi
>> P.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at code4sa.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've always wondered whether APIs are important and worth the
>effort.
>>> Surely most academics won't be able to consume them? I always think
>of APIs
>>> as services for developers to build apps on top of.
>>>
>>> Adi
>>>
>>> On 15 May 2014 1:16 PM, "Raniere Silva" <raniere at riseup.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Adi,
>>>>
>>>> > I am new to this list and was hoping for input on open science
>data
>>>> > portals. What features would you expect from a good open data
>portal
>>>> > in the academic space. Of course the usual machine readable, data
>in
>>>> > bulk, open data licensed requirements are crucial but are there
>any
>>>> > others that need to be considered.
>>>>
>>>> API to query data and metadata.
>>>>
>>>> Raniere
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