- From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:58:59 +0000
- To: Li Ding <dingl@cs.rpi.edu>
- Cc: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola@gmail.com>, eGov IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
We've also got over 680 (mostly) open data packages listed on CKAN, an open source registry of open data: http://ckan.net/ See, e.g.: * Linking Open Data group - http://ckan.net/group/lod * Packages as part of EU Open Data Inventory (alpha) - http://ckan.net/tag/read/eutransparency * Search for tags including 'country-[...]' - http://ckan.net/package/search?q=country-&search=Search+Packages+%C2%BB There are hopefully over 1000 UK government datasets on the way, as data.gov.uk is using CKAN. Regarding categories, we've found a flexible tag based approach quite useful. It would be great to ensure interoperability between CKAN and other open government data catalogues - so different bits of the 'open data ecosystem' can all talk to each other! We've started talking to Peter about this a bit regarding opengov.se. Out of interest - would anyone be interested in having an online meeting about this? E.g. next Tuesday (3rd November) evening at 1800 GMT? Best wishes, -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Li Ding <dingl@cs.rpi.edu> wrote: > Hi, we (tetherless world constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic > Institute (RPI)) did some initial search over the datasets published > on the Web, and we have a small incomplete list right. > > http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Resource_Guide_for_Government_Data > > You are welcome to join this effort by contributing the dataset you observed. > > best, > Li > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I wonder if anyone have collected a generic list of categories "what kind of >> public data exists". By generic I mean that in each country and each city >> the resposible organizations are different and the names of the data set are >> different, bur generically speaking the same kind of data sets can be found. >> >> The listing could be somehow hierarchical like >> >> Geographic data >> - >> - >> ... >> Environmental data >> - >> - >> ... >> >> You got the point. This would be highly valuable for anybody who is starting >> to build the first data catalog ih her city/country. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Antti Poikola >> Jyväskylä, Finland >> >> > > > > -- > Li Ding > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~dingl/ > >
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