On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Below is update on data.gov.uk from Richard Stirling at the UK Cabinet > Office. Includes: > > "CKAN – As you know we are working with the Open Knowledge Foundation > and using CKAN as our meta-data repository. At the moment we are > running a separate instance while the site is behind the > username/password barrier. Once this has been dropped we want to > become a full, load carrying, node of CKAN. This of course brings with > it a whole host of benefits, not least a well formed API to query our > data."
That is terrific- great news for all parties involved. Luis > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://www.okfn.org > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM > Subject: [uk-government-data-developers] Update 1.3 - So what next? > To: [email protected] > > > Over the last few weeks we have been focussing on getting the project > moving forward within Government and helping individual data owners > identify datasets for release. This culminated in the meeting last > week in which Tim and Nigel briefed the Prime Minister, Liam Byrne, > Stephen Timms and others and the announcement by the Prime Minister > and the Department of Communities and Local Government about Ordnance > Survey data. > > In the next phase of our work we will be focussing on: > > Licensing - We are looking at how to drop the transactional element of > the current licence and move closer to something like CC-BY. > > Data - We have identified a number of new datasets from departments > and hope to put some of those live shortly (including a number through > the ONS) > > Site - There are number of usability and functionality issues that we > know about and again we will be doing a fuller blog post shortly on > this. We are reading all your comments and factoring them in into the > contents of the next release. There will be a blog post from the team > shortly on improvements that went live last week and trailing some of > the others in the pipeline. > > Wiki - One of the things we had to drop from the initial preview was > the wiki for our data. This is currently being worked on by our > designers: the aim is to give each dataset an associated wiki page. > This would be a great home for sharing community knowledge – for > example sample queries, who is using the data in what way. > > Meta-Data richness - We are improving the meta-data we collect > (inspired in part by the work of Australia and New Zealand) and are > looking at how best to represent that. > > Search - This richer meta-data should allow much better search. At the > moment we are very limited in what we are searching against. We know > that this makes navigating our data a bit of a pain. > > SPARQL - Where we have Linked Data, SPARQL queries are available to be > run against it. We are working at joining this up across the stores > which will eventually provide a nice open, flexible, extensible way to > query across our data. > > CKAN – As you know we are working with the Open Knowledge Foundation > and using CKAN as our meta-data repository. At the moment we are > running a separate instance while the site is behind the > username/password barrier. Once this has been dropped we want to > become a full, load carrying, node of CKAN. This of course brings with > it a whole host of benefits, not least a well formed API to query our > data. > > > > I know this leaves a lot of questions unanswered but hopefully is a > good starter on: who we are; what we are up to; and where we are > going. > > > > Regards > > > > Richard > > > > Richard Stirling > > Digital Engagement > CabinetOffice > 020 7276 2071 > > > > http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk > > http://twitter.com/rchards > > The Cabinet Office computer systems may be monitored and > communications carried on them recorded, to secure the effective > operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. > > The original of this email was scanned for viruses by the Government > Secure Intranet virus scanning service supplied by Cable&Wireless in > partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM Certificate Number 2009/09/0052.) > On leaving the GSi this email was certified virus free. > Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored > and/or recorded for legal purposes. > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
