[publicdata-eu] Countries on publicdata.eu

Mon Feb 7 13:08:34 UTC 2011

So basically start by tipping all the apples out of the bucket, and
adding/tagging the official/verified ones for the core publicdata.eu
metadata? Or are we thinking something like a universe/multiverse
approach here - where we include international datasets, but not as
the core focus?

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:42 PM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> * [2011-02-07 13:31:02 +0100] Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] 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,
>
> I agree
>
> ] so I'm curious if we can have a CKAN schema
> ] extension party?
>
> But I also think that country might not be relevant or applicable
> to many packages not published by a government or published jointly
> by organisations in different countries (Is dbpedia German? American?
> Irish? or what... What about open street map? etc)
>
> So I would suggest that EU data from government bodies at any
> level is specifically tagged with "eudata" or similar and
> the filter on that for publicdata.eu
>
> -w
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