- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:22:27 +0200
- To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Hi Jonathan CKAN is a great and clean resource I was not aware of. Shame on me! BTW just corrected the package http://www.ckan.net/package/read/lingvoj which was written *linkvoj*. Actually that was a great typo, I should have thought of it when creating the resource, too late now, cool URIs don't change. And along with the current debate on LOD licensing, it figures I should clarify the license, but the arguments are very arcane from my non anglo-saxon non-lawyer viewpoint I must say. So basically just waiting for reliable people to tell me : just do that, it's the best practice :)). On a more general level, great idea to have a RDF description of the packages. Which ontology would you use? Seems do me that DC terms descriptions should be easy to do to begin with. Best Bernard > 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? > > -- *Bernard Vatant *Senior Consultant Vocabulary & Data Engineering Tel: +33 (0) 971 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/> ----------------------------------------------------**
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