CKAN
Contents
Overview
This is a wiki page for notes relating to the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) - a registry of (open) knowledge packages. For more information about CKAN, see the following links:
ckan.net service
CKAN project page on main OKF site
KnowledgeForge page - including svn and trac services
This wiki page - for notes, comments and ideas about CKAN that don't belong on any of the links above
Community
Please add your name to the list below if you are interest in getting involved in developing CKAN, in adding packages, in curating specific domains, or in participating in the project in any other ways!
General Development
- Rufus Pollock, OKF
- Jonathan Gray, OKF
- John Bywater, Appropriate Software Foundation
- Aaron Swartz, Open Library
- Philip (flip) Kromer, infochimps.org
- Dhruv Bansal, infochimps.org
Specific Domains
Geodata
- Jo Walsh, OKF
- Joanne Cooke, Oxford Archeology
- William Waites, Haagenti Group Inc.
Environmental
- Gavin Starks, AMEE
- Andreas Zachariah, Carbon Hero
- James Flint, Wiki Climate
- Ben Harden, Grantham Institute for Climate Change
Open Science
- Cameron Neylon, Open Notebook Science
- Kaitlin Thaney, Science Commons
Socioeconomic
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation
Adding packages to CKAN
CKAN Package Parties
Physical or virtual meetings to accelerate the registration of new packages on CKAN. For more information see:
Lists of packages to add
Below are places to look for new packages to add:
General
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/where_to_find_open_data_on_the.php#comments-open
http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web.html (also listed in del.icio.us)
http://conflate.net/inductio/application/a-meta-index-of-data-sets/
http://www.programmableweb.com/apitag/uk -- uk apis (low priority)
Geodata
Life sciences
http://bioinformatics.ca/links_directory/ - looks like this includes some data resources
http://shirleyfung.com/mbdb/index.php - Molecular Biology Databases
http://lsrn.org/lsrn/registry.html - Life Science Resource Name Schema Registry
Environmental
material from http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenEnvironmentalData
Chemistry
Linguistics
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/w3c/corpus_ling/content/corpora/list/
http://www.grsampson.net/Resources.html
- suggest splitting into 3 packages: susanne-corpus, christine-corpus, lucy-corpus, with separate information and documentation on downloading on each page.
Socioeconomics
General notes on packages to add
- trawl more US government material
- UK government material
- UN material
- EU material
- links from theinfo/infochimps
- geodata
- chemical data
- environmental data
- linguistic corpora
- public domain material
- image collections
- educational content (including oer)
Possible new features
- browser plugin
- multiple download links, including links to mirrors and multiple formats/versions
- support for download metadata (file size, file formats, version information)
- domain specific metadata (geodata metadata, scientific metadata, ...)
- tag cloud for package tags
rss feed for new packages, or for new packages for given package tag (already a trac ticket) DONE
faceted browsing by tags? DONE