- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:03:49 -0400
- To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Jonathan Gray wrote: > 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: > > Great! +1. > * 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? > Nice ideas. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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