[publicdata-eu] Countries on publicdata.eu

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> FWIW I think we should start listing all EU27 member states on front
> page, and remove 'international' link ASAP.

The international link essentially is a nice way of saying "we don't
know" or "does not apply". This is true of any data coming from
CKAN.net where location is not one of the default metadata fields.
This is not to say we should keep the value, just to explain how it
got there :-)

> Also how do people feel
> about filtering out international search results (e.g. NZ data) that
> are pulled into publicdata.eu via ckan.net?

Again, as we don't know the relevant country for ckan.net data, the
only two options I see at the moment are:

1) Remove CKAN.net
2) Manually re-classify all packages on CKAN to add a country (and language).

Since CKAN is an incredibly useful resource, I'm strongly against
removing it completely, so I'm curious if we can have a CKAN schema
extension party?

- Friedrich