[School-of-data] Ideas for data mashups and improved visualisation for CKAN

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Very keen on Geospatial. Do you have good links/APIs to name resolvers /
geotaggers In CKAN.?


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Gavin Chait <gavin.chait at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We would like to massively improve the data explorer and visualisation
> functionality on CKAN and are looking at open-source libraries and toolkits
> we may be able to use.
>
> Our brief is as follows:
>
> Search and select data from CKAN, overlay data to create mashups, and
> present these in an engaging and easy-to-use embeddable visual format.
>  Data
> would also include geospatial. Data could include transport, air quality,
> energy usage / resource efficiency, and licensing of premises / planning.
>
> There have been some cool new initiatives from infogr.am, Dataseed and
> Datawrapper.de. There are also some great geospatial visualisation
> libraries, like Kartograph.
>
> Our interest is in open source solutions to look at:
>
> 1. Managing diverse data alignment for the mashup; 2. Outputting that data
> to an embeddable visualisation.
>
> We can build on Recline and improve it, or we can work with another
> existing
> library that offers us greater flexibility.  We don't want to start from
> scratch, though.
>
> We would love to hear your ideas and suggestions as we look to the next
> generation of CKAN data explorer.
>
> Thanks and appreciated
>
> Gavin
>
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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