As people on this list may already be aware the UK Government’s public sector data site launched last week (in a private beta):
<http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/09/30/Calling-Open-Data-Developers-We-need-your-help.aspx> This is already good news, but even better is that they are using CKAN as its backend for storing all their dataset info! More in the blog post: <http://blog.okfn.org/2009/10/08/datagovuk-launched-and-its-using-ckan/> Rufus PS: though CKAN is being used by data.gov.uk right now, no uk gov datasets have appeared publicly on http://ckan.net/ itself as the beta is "closed" - but we expect this to change just as soon as data.gov.uk goes officially public … _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
