Plans are afoot here in the UK to get moving on the Power of Information Taskforce's recommendation to build a UK version of data.gov:
<http://bit.ly/digeng/> <http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/05/22/Information-and-how-to-make-it-useful.aspx> Yesterday I met up with one of the Cabinet Office team behind the project to talk about it. Other than basic discussion of priorities (what formats, what data etc), the big thing that came out of this was that they were looking at using CKAN to act as the registry for their datasets -- the actual data itself would be kept in a separate storage backend elsewhere, be that an ftp site, a storage grid like our Open Data one or something like Talis' Connected Commons. This is very exciting news and its great to have this chance to help contribute to opening up government data. Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
