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." -- 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
