- From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:00:21 +0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Hi all, I understand the main lists of public datasets for the LOD project are at: http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets http://esw.w3.org/topic/DataSetRDFDumps Many of these datasets are on CKAN (http://www.ckan.net), which is an open source registry of open datasets and other knowledge resources. For example, see the package pages for Freebase (http://www.ckan.net/package/read/freebase) or DMOZ (http://www.ckan.net/package/read/dmoz). You can also see other collections of data, such as 'eutransparency' (http://ckan.net/tag/read/eutransparency) or 'science' (http://ckan.net/tag/read/science). I'm writing to ask whether the LOD community think it would be useful to add more of the LOD datasets to CKAN? LOD datsets could have a 'linkedopendata' or 'lod' tag. Advantages of doing this might include: * Ability to tag resources by subject matter, and to include tags on access, format, ... * We could provide CKAN data as RDF (as well as current JSON) * We're working on something like 'apt-get' for the knowledge packages, so (multiple) datasets can be automatically grabbed... * More flexibility than HTML table? Also I'd be really interested to hear what kinds of things might be most useful for the LOD community! E.g. would it be useful to be able to generate a dump based on a particular tag? Or to have provision for domain specific metadata (e.g. geodata bounding box, ...). CKAN exists to make life easier for people working with open data! What do people think? -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org
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