- From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:41:18 +0100
- To: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola@gmail.com>
- Cc: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>, eGov IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Just to add to this, we've been speaking with Peter about making his opengov.se software interoperable with CKAN, the open-source service which is used in the forthcoming data.gov.uk site. http://ckan.net/ We'd also love to hear from anyone who might be interested in using CKAN as a registry for open government data - or in making sure CKAN is interoperable with other data catalogues. Also, this might be of interest: http://blog.okfn.org/2009/07/23/what-features-should-be-included-in-a-catalogue-of-open-government-data/ Warm regards, -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot Peter! > > One more addition to the relevant links, > > Open discussion list here: http://groups.google.com/group/opengov_data > > Here in Finland we are setting up opengov.fi by using and further developing > opengov.se code. Here the government has recently got exited about open data > and things are starting to move. The idea is that opengov.fi will be the > "developer friendly" catalog where people may indicate and discuss the data > sets. Opengov site will be made to work over REST API togeather with the > governments official datacatalog at www.suomi.fi/datakatalogi > > Of course there are tons of questions (technical, political and social) on > how to make a data catalog flourish. All kids of advices and hints regarding > to starting up the "open data ecosystems" are more than wellcome. > > Best regards, > > Antti Poikola > Jyväskylä, Finland > > Peter Krantz wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> I recently released the source code for the opengov.se data catalog >> website (which is an unofficial catalog of public sector information >> in Sweden). If your government currently doesn't provide information >> about public data sets you can now start your own catalog to increase >> transparency and enable re-use of public sector information. >> >> The application will be soon be used to power an open data initiative >> in Finland and I hope that more people will be interested in creating >> a catalog for their own country. >> >> Source code is available here: http://code.google.com/p/opengov-catalog/ >> opengov.se is available here: http://www.opengov.se/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Peter Krantz >> Stockholm, Sweden >> >> >> > > > >
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